{"id":1649,"date":"2026-06-04T07:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2026-06-04T07:24:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:24:29","slug":"5-chapter-nickel-and-zinc-unsuitability-for-lenr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/?p=1649","title":{"rendered":"5\u00b0 Chapter &#8211; Nickel and Zinc unsuitability for LENR"},"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\/5 - Nickel and Zinc unsuitability for LENR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole article<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/files\/5 - Nickel and Zinc unsuitability for LENR.zip\" target=\"_blank\">Download the ZIP file<\/a><br><br><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">.<\/span><br><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>To evaluate whether <strong>Nickel<\/strong> (Z=28) and <strong>Zinc <\/strong>(Z=30) can be successfully bombarded with protons to induce a clean, symmetric fission split under the <strong>Excess Neutron Shell (ENS) Model<\/strong>, we must analyze their core-mantle architectures.<br>Under the ENS model, a clean, immediate fission split requires a very specific structural condition: <strong>the core population must collapse completely to<\/strong> <em>N<sub>ex<\/sub>=0<\/em>, evacuating the central <em>n=0<\/em> singularity anchor and forcing the outer mantle pairs to split into perfectly closed, non-strained harmonic matrices (like Helium-4).<br>Let\u2019s calculate the structural matrices for the most abundant stable isotopes of Nickel and Zinc to see if they meet this criteria.<br><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">.<\/span><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/files\/5 - Nickel and Zinc unsuitability for LENR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole article<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/files\/5 - Nickel and Zinc unsuitability for LENR.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. Solid State Physics, Gujarat University M.S. Computer EngineeringUniversity of Lowell (UMass Lowell) Doctoral Research, Physics<\/p>\n<p>.Read the whole articleDownload the ZIP file.AbstractTo evaluate whether Nickel (Z=28) and Zinc (Z=30) can be successfully bombarded with protons to induce a clean, symmetric fission split under the Excess Neutron Shell (ENS) Model, we must [&#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\/1649"}],"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=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}