Transmutation Definition and 21 Threads

Hello Physics community I know this comes off as pseudoscience but think about it for a second. Couple years a ago a colleague explained during a conversation how a neutron source wich emmits certain fast and slow neutrons could cause a transmutation vicious cycle in Atmospheric conditions that...

Hi, I'd like to make sure my understanding of dimensional transmutation is correct. The key insight of QFT is that introducing quantum fluctuation can break the scale invariance of a classical theory that is naively scale invariant. Equivalently, one says that the beta function can flow...

Here there is some explanation about dimensional transmutation that answered some of the questions I had about it.Those explanations are all I understand about the subject. But I still have some questions. 1) Is it correct to say that dimensional transmutation means you can replace the coupling...

The May 2014 issue of Scientific American has the cover: Supersymmetry and the Crisis in Physics by Joseph Lykken and Maria Spiropulu with the prologue "For decades physicists have been working on a beautiful theory that has promised to lead to a deeper understanding of the quantum world. Now...

What do you think? RU2563511 MICROBIOLOGICAL METHOD OF TRANSMUTATION OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS AND CONVERSION OF ISOTOPES OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS Viktor Kurashov, Tamara Sakhno SUBSTANCE: radioactive raw materials containing radioactive chemical elements or their isotopes, are treated with an aqueous...

How many ways the nuclear waste can be transmuted?

Hello, I am trying to fully grasp the transmutation of nitrogen into radiocarbon (radiocarbon or carbon-14) via gamma collision high in the atmosphere But, I don't because I cannot whether something also happens to the electron. The canonical description is thus. High energy gamma particles...

A recent issue of Aviation Week described a novel design for a fusion reactor from the Lockheed Skunk Works. It was smaller, simpler and lighter than the extant systems now being built and they're optimistic about it's test run in five years. I wrote a letter to the editor touting this departure...

Hello, I wanted to know if it was possible to create a machine that can convert elements to those of your choosing? The most likely canadidate(and only canidate) is transmutation by fusion or fission. I know this is a physics forum but this stuff is covered in physics and you guys are pretty...

Is it expensive?

Lead AN 82 and gold AN 79 are fairly close to one an other on the Periodic Table - so maybe the alchemists of the middle ages were on to something. In fact it was already done: There are reports that Glenn Seaborg, 1951 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, succeeded in transmuting a minute quantity of...

I was reading about Earnest Lawrence and a question dawned onto me; Let's say you bombarded a metal, let's say iron or copper, with high energy protons coming from a cyclotron. The protons going from the "dees" into an accelerating vacuum tube with the specimen at the end. Would the proton beam...

Hi guys, got another problem here. This one's about nuclear transmutation; Would really appreciate help! Homework Statement Consider the reaction a + 14N7 -> 17O8 + X. a) Identify X. b) The following data are available: Rest mass of a: 3.7428 GeV c^-2 Rest mass of 14N7: 13.0942...

Homework Statement I need to find the Feynman diagram of the transmutation of a K0 particle (one anti-strange quark and one down quark) into its anti-particle (one strange quark and one anti-down quark). Homework Equations / The Attempt at a Solution s- has a charge of +1/3, d has a charge...

Hi. How viable/safe is the option of transmuting nuclear waste? Why don't we hear more about it? Is it still in the development stage (e.g. like fusion tech)? Thanks

I know this is probably really simplistic for you guys, but I just learned about transmutation in my Chemistry class today, and I was wondering whether or not all elements can be transmuted by bombardment with alpha (or some other) particles, or only a few can. Thanks!

Why is artificial transmutation not started? Why is the Integral Fast Reactor not considered? I mean, its good isn't it, not producing transuranic waste? What about creating some reactor to consume all the transuranivc wastes or elements?And this is just to know, are fusion reactors being put...

What research steps must be taken before we are able to convert hydrogen into carbon, oxygen, potassium, and so on? My quick estimate is that we may be able to do this with a particle accelerator and bombard hydrogen with neutrons and protons, with some massive amount of energy loss in the...

what is it exactly? is it some sort of mythological thing because of symbols? or is it just simply changing elements into different ones like gases and liquids?

Suppose you have some thin film of pure carbon graphite sitting on some metal, like iron. Now we start irradiating some EM energy on it the graphite, but at a specific frequency. Is it possible to select a frequency, and potentially some sort of spread/interference pattern to the EM energy...

Has anyone thought of a mechanism enhancing the disintigration rates of α-decay?