Transmutation Experiments

Remarks on Quantum Transmutation

It is shown how formulas of the author for general operator transmutation can be adapted to a quantum group context

Minor Actinide Transmutation

Cosmic Transmutation Conjecture

This paper analyzes the big trip phenomenon, restricting it to happen only in the context of the multiverse when the involved wormhole is asymptotically flat and recent criticisms are pointless. A new kind of Lorentzian asymptotically anti-de Sitter wormholes is considered in some detail and it is seen that such wormholes cannot contribute the big trip phenomenon. The ideas of big trip, multive...

Brane Transmutation in Supergravity

We study a family of BPS solutions of type IIA supergravity that can be interpreted as describing the ‘transmutation’ of a Neveu-Schwarz five-brane into a D4-brane in the presence of a D6-brane. The D4-brane, which terminates on the D6-brane, can be equally well interpreted as a ‘pure multipole’ configuration of NS5-brane wrapped tightly around the D6-brane. Such a transmutation is a “near-core...

Partitioning and Transmutation

Spent fuel from nuclear power plants contains long-lived radionuclides, which are the mainreason for its long storage time. These long-lived elements can be converted into short-livedor stable nuclides by neutron irradiation. For this transmutation process to be successful, agood separation of the long-lived elements, the actinides, from the rest of the waste must beensured....