I. Excess Heat and Calorimetry
Fleischmann, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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. 1
Background to cold fusion: The genesis of a concept
Szpak, S., P. A. Mosier-Boss, J. Dea and F. Gordon . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Polarized D+/Pd-D2O system: Hot spots and mini-explosions
Miles, M. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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. . 23
Fluidized bed experiments using platinum and palladium particles in heavy
water
Swartz, M. R. and G. M. Verner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Excess heat from low-electrical conductivity heavy water spiral-wound
Pd/D2O/Pt and Pd/D2O-PdCl2/Pt devices
Swartz, M. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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. .45
Can a Pd/D2O/Pt device be made portable to demonstrate the optimal operating
point?
Wei, Q. M., X. Z. Li and Y. O. Cui . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Excess heat in heavy water-Pd/C catalyst cathode (Case-Type) electrolysis at
the temperature near the boiling point
Dardik, I., H. Branover, A. El-Boher, D. Gazit, E. Golbreich, E. Greenspan,
A. Kapusta, B. Khachatorov, V. Krakov, S. Lesin, B. Michailovitch, G. Shani
and T. Zilov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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. . 61
Intensification of low energy nuclear reactions using superwave excitation
Mizuno, T., T. Ohmori, and T. Akimoto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Generation of heat and products during plasma electrolysis
Tsvetkov, S. A., E. S. Filatov and V. A. Khokhlov . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Excess heat in molten salts of (LiCl - KCl) + (LiD + LiF) at the titanium
anode during electrolysis
Karabut, A. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.99
Production of excess heat, impurity elements and unnatural isotopic ratios
formed at excited long-lived atomic levels with energy of more than 1 keV in a
solid cathode medium during high-current glow discharge
Li, X. Z., B. Liu, N. N. Cai, Q. M. Wei, J. Tian, and D. X. Cao . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 113
Progress in gas-loading D/Pd system: The feasibility of a self-sustaining heat
generator
Heat and 4He
Miles, M. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 123
Correlation of excess enthalpy and helium-4 production: A review
De Ninno, A., A. Frattolillo, A. Rizzo, and E. Del Giudice . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
4He detection in a cold fusion experiment
Arata, Y. and Y. C. Zhang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Development of compact nuclear fusion reactor using solid pycnodeuterium as
nuclear fuel
Triggering
Letts, D. and D. Cravens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Laser stimulation of deuterated palladium: Past and present
Cravens, D. J. and D. G. Letts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171
Practical techniques in CF research--triggering methods
Storms, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 183
Use of a very sensitive Seebeck Calorimeter to study the Pons-Fleischmann
and Letts effect
McKubre, M., F. Tanzella, P. Hagelstein, K. Mullican and M. Trevithick
. . . . . 199
The need for triggering in cold fusion reactions
Swartz, M. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.213
Photo-induced excess heat from laser-irradiated electrically polarized palladium
cathodes in D2O
Liu, B., X. Z. Li, L. Ge, and L. Yan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227
Triggering a deuterium flux in Pd wire using electromagnetic field
Cavitation
Stringham, R. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Cavitation and fusion
Calorimetry
Fleischmann, M. and M.H. Miles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .247
The instrument function of isoperibolic calorimeters; excess enthalpy generation
due to the parasitic reduction of oxygen
Storms, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 269
How to make a cheap and effective Seebeck calorimeter
Hansen, W. N., G. J. Hansen, and D. Glenn . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Analysis of some electrochemical calorimetry data
Related topics
Storms, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 285
What conditions are required to initiate the LENR effect?
Nagel, D. J. and M. Ashraf Imam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Energetics of defects and strains in palladium
Hagelstein, P. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
305
Thermal to electric energy conversion
Gimpel, R. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.315
Multicell reactors
II. Tritium Production
Romodanov, V. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
The tritium generation at interaction of plasma glow discharge with metals
and at imposing of the magnetic field
Afonichev, D. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .353
High-frequency radiation and tritium channel
III. Transmutation
Miley, G. H. and P. J. Shrestha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Review of transmutation reactions in solids
Celani, F., A. Spallone, E. Righi, G. Trenta, C. Catena, G. D'Agostaro,
P. Quercia, V. Andreassi, P. Marini, V. di Stefano, M. Nakamura, A. Mancini,
P. G. Sona, F. Fontana, L. Gamberale and D. Garbelli, F. Falcioni,
M. Marchesini, E. Novaro, and U. Mastromatteo . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Thermal and isotopic anomalies when Pd cathodes are electrolyzed in electrolytes
containing Th-Hg salts dissolved at micromolar concentration in
C2H5OD/D2O mixtures
Passell, T. O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 399
Pd-110/108 ratios and trace element changes in particulate palladium exposed
to deuterium gas
Violante, V., G. Mazzitelli, L. Capobianco, G.H Miley, N. Luo,
P.J. Shrestha, F. Sarto, E. Santoro, and C. Sibilia . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .405
Search for nuclear ashes in electrochemical experiments
Violante, V., E. Castagna, C. Sibilia, S. Paoloni, and F. Sarto . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Analysis of Ni-hydride thin film after surface plasmons generation by laser
technique
Iwamura, Y., T. Itoh, M. Sakano, S. Sakai and S. Kuribayashi . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . .435
Low energy nuclear transmutation in condensed matter induced by D2 gas
permeation through Pd complexes: Correlation between deuterium flux and
nuclear products
Higashiyama, T., H. Miyamaru, A. Takahashi, and M. Sakano . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .447
Replication of MHI transmutation experiment by D2 gas permeation through
Pd complex
Yamada, H., S. Narita, H. Onodera, H. Suzuki, N. Tanaka, T. Nyui
and T. Ushirozawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .455
Analysis by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy for nuclear products
in hydrogen penetration through palladium
Dash, J. and D. Chicea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Changes in the radioactivity, topography, and surface composition of uranium
after hydrogen loading by aqueous electrolysis
Chicea, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 475
Comment on carbon production in deuterium-metal systems
Afonichev, D. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .483
Ascending diffusion or transmutation
Tsvetkov, S. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
487
Possibility of using of cold fusion for the transmutation of nuclear
waste products
Adamenko, S. V. and V. I. Vysotskii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Experimental observation and a possible way to create anomalous isotopes and
stable superheavy nuclei via the electron-nucleus collapse
III. Radiation
Keeney, F. W., S. E. Jones, A. C. Johnson, P. L. Hagelstein, G. Hubler,
D. B. Buehler, F. E. Cecil, M. R. Scott, J. E Ellsworth . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .509
Charged-particle emissions from deuterided Metals
Keeney, F. W., S. E. Jones, A. C. Johnson, P. L. Hagelstein, G. Hubler,
D. B. Buehler, F. E. Cecil, M. R. Scott, J. E Ellsworth . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .525
Neutron emissions from deuterided metals
Cecil, F. E., H. Liu, and C. S. Galovich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
Energetic charged particles from deuterium metal systems
Lipson, A. G., G.H. Miley, A.S. Roussetski,and E.I. Saunin . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . .539
Phenomenon of an energetic charged particle emission from hydrogen/
deuterium loaded metals
Roussetski, A. S., A. G. Lipson, and V. P. Andreanov . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
Nuclear emissions from titanium hydride/deuteride induced by powerful picosecond
laser beam
Oriani, R. A., and J. C. Fisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Detection of energetic charged particles during electrolysis
Oriani, R. A., and J. C. Fisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577
Energetic charged particles produced in the gas phase by electrolysis
Karabut, A. B., and S.A. Kolomeychenko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
Experimental research into characteristics of x-ray emission from solid-state
cathode medium of high-current glow discharge
Karabut, A. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
597
Experimental research into secondary penetrating radiation when interacting
x-ray beams of solid laser with various materials targets
Narita, S., H. Yamada, A. Arapi, N. Sato, D. Kato, M. Yamamura,
and M. Itagaki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.603
Gamma ray detection and surface analysis on palladium electrode in dc glowlike
discharge Experiment
McIntyre, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.611
Proposal for an experiment designed to seek evidence for cold fusion
Jones, S. E. and J.E. Ellsworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617
Geo-fusion and cold nucleosynthesis
IV. Beam Experiments
Kitamura, A., Y. Awa, T. Minari, N. Kubota, A. Taniike and Y. Furuyama . . 623
D(d,p)t reaction rate enhancement in a mixed layer of Au and Pd
Lipson, A. G., G. H. Miley, A. S. Roussetski, and A. B. Karabut . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 635
Strong enhancement of dd-reaction accompanied by x-ray generation in a
pulsed low voltage high-current deuterium glow discharge with a Ti-cathode
Takahashi, A., H. Miyamaru, K. Ochiai, Y. Katayama, T. Hayashi
and T. Dairaku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
657
Studies on 3D fusion reactions in TiDx under ion beam implantation
V. Theory
Screening
Violante, V., G. Mazzitelli, L. Capobianco, F. Sarto, E. Santoro,
M. McKubre, F. Tanzella, G.H Miley, N. Luo, P.J. Shrestha,
and C. Sibilia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 667
Study of lattice potentials on low-energy nuclear processes in condensed matter
Kirkinskii, V. A. and Yu. A. Novikov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681
Calculations of nuclear reactions probability in a crystal lattice of titanium
deuteride
Luo, N., P.J. Shrestha and G.H. Miley, and V. Violante . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687
Enhancement of nuclear reactions due to screening effects of core electrons
Frisone, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 695
Fusion reaction within a microcrack with cubic lattice structure at low energy
and the studey of non semi-classical tunneling
Takahashi, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.703
Quantum field theory, and screening the Coulomb potential by mobile
deuterons for the low-energy nuclear reaction
Luo, N. and G. H. Miley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709
First-principles study of ionic and electronic transport in palladium hydride
Resonant Tunneling
Chen, S. and X. Z. Li . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717
The application of multiple scattering theory in calculating the deuterium flux
permeating the Pd thin film
Zhou, X., X. Z. Li, B. Liu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .729
Bethe's calculation for solar energy and selective resonant tunneling
Ion Band States
Chubb, S. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
735
Nuts and bolts of the ion band state theory
Chubb, T. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
753
The dd cold fusion-transmutation connection
Chubb, T. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
767
LENR: Superfluids, self-trapping and non-self-trapping states
Chubb, S. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
771
Impact of boundary effects involving broken gauge symmetry on LENR's
Bose-Einstein Condensate Approach
Kim, Y. E., D. S. Koltick, and A. L. Zubarev . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779
Quantum many-body theory of low energy nuclear reaction induced by acoustic
cavitation in deuterated liquid
Kim, Y. E., D. S. Koltick, R. Prenger, J. Myers and R. Koltick . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . .789
Experimental test of Bose-Einstein condensation mechanism for low energy
nuclear reaction in nanoscale atomic clusters
Tsuchiya, K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.801
Quantum states of deuterons in palladium
Multibody Fusion
Takahashi, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.809
Mechanism of deuteron cluster fusion by EQPET model
Ohta, M. and A. Takahashi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819
Analysis of nuclear transmutation induced from metal plus
multibody-fusionproducts
reaction
Engvild, K. C., and L. Kowalski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825
Triple deuterium fusion by three-body recombination between deuteron and the
nuclei of lattice trapped deuterium molecules
Preparata Theory
Del Giudice, E., A. De Ninno and A. Frattolillo . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831
Are nuclear transmutations observed at low energies consequences of QED
coherence?
Phonon Coupling
Hagelstein, P. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
837
Unified phonon-coupled SU(N) models for anomalies in metal deuterides
Hagelstein, P. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
871
Resonant tunneling and resonant excitation transfer
Chaudhary, I. and P. L. Hagelstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .887
Few-body nuclear wavefunctions
Chaudhary, I. and P. L. Hagelstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .903
Coherence factors in many-particle three-level systems
Neutron Clusters
Fisher, J. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 915
Theory of low-temperature particle showers
Kozima, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 919
CF-matter and the cold fusion phenomenon
Other
Vysotskii, V. I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
929
The theory and experimental investigation of controlled spontaneous conversion
nuclear decay of radioactive isotopes
Campbell, C. K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
937
The cold fusion phenomenon: A hypothesis
VI. Other Topics
Rothwell, J. and E. Storms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939
The LENR-CANR.org website: Its past and future
Kowalski, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 943
Teachers debate cold fusion
L. Kowalski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .953
The dilemma of a physics teacher
Lewis, E. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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. 959
"Cold fusion" may be part of a scientific revolution
Lewis, E. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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. 973
The ball lightning state in cold fusion
Mallove, E. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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983
LENR and "cold fusion" excess heat: Their relation to other anomalous
microphysical
energy experiments and emerging new energy technologies
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