Bibliographic record
Abstract
XA1. Modifications of the Proton-Proton Chain. A. G. W. Cameron, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited.—The unexpectedly large cross section measured 1 for the He3(α,β)Be7 reaction implies that this reaction will complete the proton-proton chain in stars with higher temperatures and helium concentrations, supplanting the He3(He3,2p)He4 reaction. The energy generation rate is thus doubled because of the more efficient conversion of hydrogen into helium. From recent solar model calculations 2 it appears that the He3(α,γ)Be7 process did not take place in the primordial sun, but now predominates within about the central seven percent of the radius. Be7 is ionized in the solar interior. the free electron capture rate has been estimated by replacing the wave function for a K electron at the nuclear surface by that for a free electron. this rate appears to be slightly smaller at the solar center than the rate for the Be7(p,γ)B3 process, which has been computed for direct nonresonant capture using a square well. If this is correct, then the very energetic B3 neutrinos should have a flux at the earth of about 4×103 neutrinos cm−3 sec−1, which can probably be detected using a 10 000 gal tank of CCl4 in a mine (R. Davis, private communication). The modified proton-proton chain may produce the large lithium abundances in certain giant stars. Thanks are due W. A. Fowler for bringing the work of reference 1 to the writer’s attention before publication.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.045 | 0.023 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".