{"id":1640,"date":"2026-06-04T06:51:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:51:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:51:56","slug":"1-chapter-the-quantum-gravitational-basis-of-thermal-neutron-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"1\u00b0 Chapter &#8211; The Quantum-Gravitational Basis of Thermal Neutron Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">.<\/span><br><em>by<br>Bhagirath Joshi<br>M.Sc. Solid State Physics, Gujarat University M.S. Computer Engineering<br>University of Lowell (UMass Lowell) Doctoral Research, Physics<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">.<\/span><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/files\/1 - The Quantum-Gravitational Basis of Thermal Neutron Capture.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole article<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/files\/1 - The Quantum-Gravitational Basis of Thermal Neutron Capture.zip\" target=\"_blank\">Download the ZIP file<\/a><br><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">.<\/span><br><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>Anomalous thermal neutron capture cross-sections that span millions of barns\u2014such as those belonging to <sup>135<\/sup>Xe or <sup>157<\/sup>Gd\u2014pose a historic challenge to deterministic nuclear theory.<br>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 &#8220;tails&#8221; of a scattering matrix<br>distribution.<br>This paper presents a complete, non-probabilistic alternative by integrating the <strong>Excess Neutron Shell (ENS) Model<\/strong> (Joshi, 2011) with a newly derived subatomic effective gravitational constant.<br>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.<br>By replacing stochastic &#8220;statistical doorways&#8221; with a deterministic function of <strong>Core Vacancy Debt<\/strong> and <strong>Shell Gap Compression<\/strong>, we re-evaluate the MIT findings.<br>We prove that the &#8220;chaotic fluctuations&#8221; observed at low energies are the predictable geometric consequences of a localized quantum-gravitational field projecting through a hollow <em>np-mantle<\/em> to an absolute center <em>n=0<\/em> neutron anchor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">.<\/span><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/files\/1 - The Quantum-Gravitational Basis of Thermal Neutron Capture.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole article<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/files\/1 - The Quantum-Gravitational Basis of Thermal Neutron Capture.zip\" target=\"_blank\">Download the ZIP file<\/a><br><br><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">.byBhagirath JoshiM.Sc. 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Computer EngineeringUniversity of Lowell (UMass Lowell) Doctoral Research, Physics<\/p>\n<p>.Read the whole articleDownload the ZIP file.AbstractAnomalous thermal neutron capture cross-sections that span millions of barns\u2014such as those belonging to 135Xe or 157Gd\u2014pose a historic challenge to deterministic nuclear theory.The benchmark MIT open-access study by Hussein, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}