Production of H-2, He-3, and Li-7 from interactions between jets and clouds

The interactions between jets of high-energy nuclei and nuclei of the surro unding medium are studied. Such interactions could be initiated by jets fro m active galactic nuclei interacting with surrounding cool clouds. The resu lting nuclear interactions are found to produce copious amounts of H-2 and He-3 from the He-4 nuclei. These results suggest that jets of particles fro m quasars could have produced anomalously high abundances in surrounding cl ouds of some of the nuclides usually thought to characterize big bang nucle osynthesis, specifically, the H-2 seen in absorption spectra.