Experiments on Sonoluminescence: Possible Nuclear and QED Aspects and Optical Applications

Belyaev, V. B.; Ionikh, Yu. Z.; Miller, M. B.; Motovilov, A. K.; Sermyagin, A. V.; Smolnikov, A. A.; Tolmachev, Yu. A.

Experiments on Sonoluminescence: Possible Nuclear and QED Aspects and Optical Applications

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Experiments aimed at testing some hypothesis about the nature of Single Bubble Sonoluminescence are discussed. A possibility to search for micro-traces of thermonuclear neutrons is analyzed, with the aid of original low-background neutron counter operating under conditions of the deep shielding from Cosmic and other sources of background. Besides, some signatures of QED-contribution to the light emission in SBSL are under the consideration, as well as new approaches to probe a temperature inside the bubble. An applied-physics portion of the program is presented also, in which an attention is being paid to single- and a few-pulse light sources on the basis of SBSL.
4 pages; to be published by AIP in the Proc. ISNA-15