1° Chapter – The Quantum-Gravitational Basis of Thermal Neutron Capture

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Bhagirath Joshi
M.Sc. Solid State Physics, Gujarat University M.S. Computer Engineering
University of Lowell (UMass Lowell) Doctoral Research, Physics

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Abstract
Anomalous thermal neutron capture cross-sections that span millions of barns—such as those belonging to ¹³⁵Xe or ¹⁵⁷Gd—pose a historic challenge to deterministic nuclear theory.
The benchmark MIT open-access study by Hussein, Carlson, and Kerman (2016) addresses these anomalies through random matrix theory, categorizing them as extreme statistical fluctuations occupying the chaotic “tails” of a scattering matrix
distribution.
This paper presents a complete, non-probabilistic alternative by integrating the Excess Neutron Shell (ENS) Model (Joshi, 2011) with a newly derived subatomic effective gravitational constant.
Through both classical boundary matching and quantum potential derivations, we demonstrate that nuclear gravity scales upward by exactly 35 orders of magnitude inside the subatomic domain.
By replacing stochastic “statistical doorways” with a deterministic function of Core Vacancy Debt and Shell Gap Compression, we re-evaluate the MIT findings.
We prove that the “chaotic fluctuations” observed at low energies are the predictable geometric consequences of a localized quantum-gravitational field projecting through a hollow np-mantle to an absolute center n=0 neutron anchor.

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