Application of Semi-major Axis Length Analysis to the Determination of Temperature and Surface Composition of Solar System Objects in Various Stages of Solar Evolution
By Oliver Song
Cold Fusion has been an active research field in the quest for next-generation energy. In Andrei Lipson’s CR-39 experiments, oscillating deuterium atoms or other particles were accelerated (collective acceleration effect) through an electric field and collided with each other to undergo fusion. Another procedure conducted by Roussetski involved the bombardment of TiD2 with a Deuteron beam. In all these scenarios of fusion research, a significant bottleneck is the detection of reactant molecules. The application of CR-39 plastic track detectors in cold fusion experiments is vital to detecting and identifying different particles and background/foreground separation.The current method of gathering data from CR-39 tracks is to use an electron microscope to dissect each individual crater in the x-y and z planes. There has been no way to analyze large amounts of CR-39 data in a reasonable time frame. In this research, we study 3D trace data from nuclear particle impacts upon CR-39 detectors to identify craters made by particles. We utilize a new process, confocal microscopy, to gather numerical trace data from the polycarbonate. We propose and apply new approaches for detecting and computing several main characteristics, such as depth and incident angle, of the impact of the particle. Our approach and related code serves as a tool for automatically classifying the craters and matching them to known collision types and corresponding particles, therefore enabling the efficient and accurate processing of large quantities of CR-39 data…