POSSIBILITY OF MECHANICALLY STIMULATED TRANSMUTATION OF CARBON NUCLEIIN ULTRADISPERSE DEUTERIUM-CONTAINING MEDIA

The variation of the concentration of C-14 in graphite subjected to vi bratory milling in the presence of heavy (or light) water is investiga ted using methods of radiocarbon beta-spectral analysis. It is discove red that the C+D2O system exhibits a statistically significant increas e in the beta counting rate in comparison to the C+H2O system milled u nder similar conditions. A quantitative model of the transmutation of the C-13 isotope into the C-14 isotope involving an interaction of mul tiphonon excitations with deuterons in the graphite crystal lattice in the presence of background thermal neutrons is proposed. (C) 1997 Ame rican Institute of Physics.