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Soft X-ray continuum radiation from low-energy pinch discharges of hydrogen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2013

R. MILLS ,
R. BOOKER  and
Y. LU
R. MILLS
Affiliation:
BlackLight Power, Inc., 493 Old Trenton Road, Cranbury, NJ 08512, US (rmills@blacklightpower.com)
R. BOOKER
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC 28804, USA
Y. LU
Affiliation:
BlackLight Power, Inc., 493 Old Trenton Road, Cranbury, NJ 08512, US (rmills@blacklightpower.com)
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Abstract

Under a study contracted by GEN3 Partners, spectra of high current pinch discharges in pure hydrogen and helium were recorded in the extreme ultraviolet radiation region at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in an attempt to reproduce experimental results published by BlackLight Power, Inc. (BLP) showing predicted continuum radiation due to hydrogen in the 10–30 nm region (Mills, R. L. and Lu, Y. 2010 Hydrino continuum transitions with cutoffs at 22.8 nm and 10.1 nm. Int. J. Hydrog. Energy35, 8446–8456, doi:10.1016?j.ijhydene.2010.05.098). Alternative explanations were considered to the claimed interpretation of the continuum radiation as being that emitted during transitions of H to lower-energy states (hydrinos). Continuum radiation was observed at CfA in the 10–30 nm region that matched BLP's results. Considering the low energy of 5.2 J per pulse, the observed radiation in the energy range of about 120–40 eV, reference experiments and analysis of plasma gases, cryofiltration to remove contaminants, and spectra of the electrode metal, no conventional explanation was found in the prior or present work to be plausible including contaminants, electrode metal emission, and Bremsstrahlung, ion recombination, molecular or molecular ion band radiation, and instrument artifacts involving radicals and energetic ions reacting at the charge-coupled device and H2 re-radiation at the detector chamber. Moreover, predicted selective extraordinarily high-kinetic energy H was observed by the corresponding Doppler broadening of the Balmer α line.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 79 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 489 - 507
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