Takahashi Now Includes Weak Interactions in LENR Theory

Akito Takahashi, a retired professor of nuclear engineering from Osaka University, and now affiliated with Technova Inc., is shifting his thinking about low-energy nuclear reactions.

For two decades, Takahashi, a LENR experimentalist and theorist, has been exclusively proposing strong force reactions in which deuterons theoretically overcome the Coulomb barrier at room temperature.

In the abstracts for the forthcoming Japan CF Research Society conference, Takahashi discusses the weak interaction p +e –> n + v and the neutron capture process 3p + n –> 3He + p.

Two decades ago, LENR theorists initially considered weak interactions and neutron capture process to explain the experimental observations in LENRs.

But it wasn’t until 2005 when Allan Widom and Lewis Larsen published their
Ultra-Low-Momentum Neutron Catalyzed Theory of LENRs that the concept of weak interactions began to make sense.