CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE

CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cold Fusion

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 24 - 29 August 2003

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
I. Excess Heat and Calorimetry
BACKGROUND TO COLD FUSION: THE GENESIS OF A CONCEPT M. FLEISCHMANN	1
POLARIZED D⁺/Pd–D₂O SYSTEM: HOT SPOTS AND MINI-EXPLOSIONS S. SZPAK, P.A. MOSIER-BOSS, J. DEA and F. GORDON	13
FLUIDIZED BED EXPERIMENTS USING PLATINUM AND PALLADIUM PARTICLES IN HEAVY WATER M. H. MILES	23
EXCESS HEAT FROM LOW-ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY HEAVY WATER SPIRAL-WOUND Pd/D₂O/Pt AND Pd/D₂O–PdCl₂/Pt DEVICES MITCHELL R. SWARTZ and GAYLE M. VERNER	29
CAN A Pd/D₂O/Pt DEVICE BE MADE PORTABLE TO DEMONSTRATE THE OPTIMAL OPERATING POINT? MITCHELL R. SWARTZ	45
EXCESS HEAT IN HEAVY WATER–Pd/C CATALYST CATHODE (CASE-TYPE) ELECTROLYSIS AT THE TEMPERATURE NEAR the BOILING POINT QING M. WEI, XING Z. LI and YAN O. CUI	55
INTENSIFICATION OF LOW ENERGY NUCLEAR REACTIONS USING SUPERWAVE EXCITATION I. DARDIK, 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	61
GENERATION OF HEAT AND PRODUCTS DURING PLASMA ELECTROLYSIS TADAHIKO MIZUNO, TADAYOSHI OHMORI and TADASHI AKIMOTO	73
EXCESS HEAT IN MOLTEN SALTS OF (LiCl − KCl) + (LiD + LiF) AT THE TITANIUM ELECTRODE DURING ELECTROLYSIS S.A. TSVETKOV, E.S. FILATOV and V.A. KHOKHLOV	89
PRODUCTION OF EXCESS HEAT, IMPURITY ELEMENTS AND UNNATURAL ISOTOPIC RATIOS IN HIGH-CURRENT GLOW DISCHARGE EXPERIMENTS A. B. KARABUT	99
PROGRESS IN GAS-LOADING D/Pd SYSTEM: THE FEASIBILITY OF A SELF-SUSTAINING HEAT GENERATOR XING Z. LI, BIN LIU, NAO N. CAI, QING M. WEI, JIAN TIAN and DONG X. CAO	113
I. Excess Heat and Calorimetry — Heat and ⁴He
CORRELATION OF EXCESS ENTHALPY AND HELIUM-4 PRODUCTION: A REVIEW M.H. MILES	123
⁴He DETECTION IN A COLD FUSION EXPERIMENT A. DE NINNO, A. FRATTOLILLO, A. RIZZO and E. DEL GIUDICE	133
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPACT NUCLEAR FUSION REACTOR USING SOLID PYCNODEUTERIUM AS NUCLEAR FUEL YOSHIAKI ARATA and YUE CHANG ZHANG	139
I. Excess Heat and Calorimetry — Triggering
LASER STIMULATION OF DEUTERATED PALLADIUM: PAST AND PRESENT DENNIS LETTS and DENNIS CRAVENS	159
PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES IN CF RESEARCH: TRIGGERING METHODS D.J. CRAVENS and D.G. LETTS	171
USE OF A VERY SENSITIVE SEEBECK CALORIMETER TO STUDY THE PONS-FLEISCHMANN AND LETTS EFFECTS EDMUND STORMS	183
THE NEED FOR TRIGGERING IN COLD FUSION REACTIONS M. MCKUBRE, F. TANZELLA, P. L. HAGELSTEIN, K. MULLICAN and M. TREVITHICK	199
PHOTO-INDUCED EXCESS HEAT FROM LASER-IRRADIATED ELECTRICALLY POLARIZED PALLADIUM CATHODES IN D₂O M.R. SWARTZ	213
TRIGGERING A DEUTERIUM FLUX IN Pd WIRE USING AN ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD BIN LIU, XING Z. LI, LAN GE and LIN YAN	227
I. Excess Heat and Calorimetry — Cavitation
CAVITATION AND FUSION ROGER S. STRINGHAM	233
I. Excess Heat and Calorimetry — Calorimetry
THE INSTRUMENT FUNCTION OF ISOPERIBOLIC CALORIMETERS: EXCESS ENTHALPY GENERATION DUE TO THE PARASITIC REDUCTION OF OXYGEN M. FLEISCHMANN and M.H. MILES	247
HOW TO MAKE A CHEAP AND EFFECTIVE SEEBECK CALORIMETER EDMUND STORMS	269
ANALYSIS OF SOME ELECTROCHEMICAL CALORIMETRY DATA WILFORD N. HANSEN, GALEN J. HANSEN and DAVID GLENN	273
I. Excess Heat and Calorimetry — Related Topics
WHAT CONDITIONS ARE REQUIRED TO INITIATE THE LENR EFFECT? EDMUND STORMS	285
ENERGETICS OF DEFECTS AND STRAINS IN PALLADIUM DAVID J. NAGEL and M. ASHRAF IMAM	291
THERMAL TO ELECTRIC ENERGY CONVERSION PETER L. HAGELSTEIN	305
MULTICELL REACTORS R.F. GIMPEL	315
II. Tritium Production
TRITIUM GENERATION FROM THE INTERACTION OF A GLOW DISCHARGE PLASMA WITH METALS AND WITH A MAGNETIC FIELD V.A. ROMODANOV	325
HIGH-FREQUENCY RADIATION AND TRITIUM CHANNEL D.D. AFONICHEV	353
III. Transmutation
REVIEW OF TRANSMUTATION REACTIONS IN SOLIDS G.H. MILEY and P.J. SHRESTHA	361
THERMAL AND ISOTOPIC ANOMALIES WHEN Pd CATHODES ARE ELECTROLYZED IN ELECTROLYTES CONTAINING Th–Hg SALTS DISSOLVED AT MICROMOLAR CONCENTRATION IN C₂H₅OD/D₂O MIXTURES F. CELANI, 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, D. GARBELLI, F. FALCIONI, M. MARCHESINI, E. NOVARO and U. MASTROMATTEO	379
Pd-110/108 RATIOS AND TRACE ELEMENT CHANGES IN PARTICULATE PALLADIUM EXPOSED TO DEUTERIUM GAS THOMAS O. PASSELL	399
SEARCH FOR NUCLEAR ASHES IN ELECTROCHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS V. VIOLANTE, G. MAZZITELLI, L. CAPOBIANCO, M. MCKUBRE, F. TANZELLA, F. SARTO, E. SANTORO and C. SIBILIA	405
ANALYSIS OF Ni-HYDRIDE THIN FILM AFTER SURFACE PLASMON GENERATION BY LASER TECHNIQUE V. VIOLANTE, E. CASTAGNA, C. SIBILIA, S. PAOLONI and F. SARTO	421
LOW ENERGY NUCLEAR TRANSMUTATION IN CONDENSED MATTER INDUCED BY D₂ GAS PERMEATION THROUGH Pd COMPLEXES: CORRELATION BETWEEN DEUTERIUM FLUX AND NUCLEAR PRODUCTS Y. IWAMURA, T. ITOH, M. SAKANO, S. SAKAI and S. KURIBAYASHI	435
REPLICATION OF MHI TRANSMUTATION EXPERIMENT BY D₂ GAS PERMEATION THROUGH Pd COMPLEX TAICHI HIGASHIYAMA, HIROYUKI MIYAMARU, AKITO TAKAHASHI and MITSURU SAKANO	447
ANALYSIS BY TIME-OF-FLIGHT SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROSCOPY FOR NUCLEAR PRODUCTS IN HYDROGEN PENETRATION THROUGH PALLADIUM H. YAMADA, S. NARITA, H. ONODERA, H. SUZUKI, N. TANAKA, T. NYUI and T. USHIROZAWA	455
CHANGES IN THE RADIOACTIVITY, TOPOGRAPHY, AND SURFACE COMPOSITION OF URANIUM AFTER HYDROGEN LOADING BY AQUEOUS ELECTROLYSIS J. DASH and D. CHICEA	463
COMMENT ON CARBON PRODUCTION IN DEUTERIUM-METAL SYSTEMS DAN CHICEA	475
ASCENDING DIFFUSION OR TRANSMUTATION D. D. AFONICHEV	483
POSSIBILITY OF USING OF COLD FUSION FOR THE TRANSMUTATION OF NUCLEAR WASTE PRODUCTS S. A. TSVETKOV	487
EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION AND A POSSIBLE WAY TO THE CREATE ANOMALOUS ISOTOPES AND STABLE SUPERHEAVY NUCLEI VIA ELECTRON-NUCLEUS COLLAPSE S.V. ADAMENKO and V.I. VYSOTSKII	493
III. Radiation
CHARGED-PARTICLE EMISSIONS FROM DEUTERIDED METALS F. W. KEENEY, S. E. JONES, A. C. JOHNSON, P. L. HAGELSTEIN, G. HUBLER, D. B. BUEHLER, F. E. CECIL, M. R. SCOTT and J. E. ELLSWORTH	509
NEUTRON EMISSIONS FROM DEUTERIDED METALS F. W. KEENEY, S. E. JONES, A. C. JOHNSON, P. L. HAGELSTEIN, G. HUBLER, D. B. BUEHLER, F. E. CECIL, M. R. SCOTT and J. E. ELLSWORTH	525
ENERGETIC CHARGED PARTICLES FROM DEUTERIUM METAL SYSTEMS F.E. CECIL, H. LIU and C.S. GALOVICH	535
PHENOMENON OF AN ENERGETIC CHARGED PARTICLE EMISSION FROM HYDROGEN/DEUTERIUM LOADED METALS A.G. LIPSON, G.H. MILEY, A.S. ROUSSETSKI and E.I. SAUNIN	539
NUCLEAR EMISSIONS FROM TITANIUM HYDRIDE/DEUTERIDE INDUCED BY POWERFUL PICOSECOND LASER BEAM A. S. ROUSSETSKI, A. G. LIPSON and V. P. ANDREANOV	559
ENERGETIC CHARGED PARTICLES PRODUCED IN THE GAS PHASE BY ELECTROLYSIS R.A. ORIANI and J.C. FISHER	567
DETECTION OF ENERGETIC CHARGED PARTICLES DURING ELECTROLYSIS R.A. ORIANI and J.C. FISHER	577
EXPERIMENTS CHARACTERIZING THE X-RAY EMISSION FROM A SOLID-STATE CATHODE USING A HIGH-CURRENT GLOW DISCHARGE A.B. KARABUT and S.A. KOLOMEYCHENKO	585
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH INTO SECONDARY PENETRATING RADIATION WHEN X-RAY BEAMS OF SOLID LASER INTERACT WITH VARIOUS TARGET MATERIALS A. B. KARABUT	597
GAMMA-RAY DETECTION AND SURFACE ANALYSIS ON A PALLADIUM ELECTRODE IN A DC GLOW-LIKE DISCHARGE EXPERIMENT S. NARITA, H. YAMADA, A. ARAPI, N. SATO, D. KATO, M. YAMAMURA and M. ITAGAKI	603
PROPOSAL FOR AN EXPERIMENT DESIGNED TO SEEK EVIDENCE FOR COLD FUSION RON MCINTYRE	611
COLD (METAL-ENHANCED) FUSION, GEO-FUSION, AND COLD NUCLEOSYNTHESIS S.E. JONES and J.E. ELLSWORTH	617
IV. Beam Experiments
D(d,p)t REACTION RATE ENHANCEMENT IN A MIXED LAYER OF Au AND Pd A. KITAMURA, Y. AWA, T. MINARI, N. KUBOTA, A. TANIIKE and Y. FURUYAMA	623
STRONG ENHANCEMENT OF DD-REACTION ACCOMPANIED BY X-RAY GENERATION IN A PULSED LOW VOLTAGE HIGH-CURRENT DEUTERIUM GLOW DISCHARGE WITH A TITANIUM CATHODE A.G. LIPSON, G.H. MILEY, A.S. ROUSSETSKI and A.B. KARABUT	635
STUDIES ON 3D FUSION REACTIONS IN TiD_x UNDER ION BEAM IMPLANTATION A. TAKAHASHI, H. MIYAMARU, K. OCHIAI, Y. KATAYAMA, T. HAYASHI and T. DAIRAKU	657
V. Theory — Screening
STUDY OF LATTICE POTENTIALS ON LOW-ENERGY NUCLEAR PROCESSES IN CONDENSED MATTER V. VIOLANTE, G. MAZZITELLI, L. CAPOBIANCO, F. SARTO, E. SANTORO, M. MCKUBRE, F. TANZELLA, G.H. MILEY, N. LUO, P.J. SHRESTHA and C. SIBILIA	667
CALCULATIONS OF NUCLEAR REACTION PROBABILITIES IN A CRYSTAL LATTICE OF TITANIUM DEUTERIDE V. A. KIRKINSKII and YU. A. NOVIKOV	681
ENHANCEMENT OF NUCLEAR REACTIONS DUE TO SCREENING EFFECTS OF CORE ELECTRONS N. LUO, P.J. SHRESTHA, G.H. MILEY and V. VIOLANTE	687
FUSION REACTION WITHIN A MICROCRACK WITH CUBIC LATTICE STRUCTURE AT LOW ENERGY AND STUDY OF THE NON SEMI-CLASSICAL TUNNELING FULVIO FRISONE	695
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY, AND SCREENING THE COULOMB POTENTIAL BY MOBILE DEUTERONS FOR THE LOW-ENERGY NUCLEAR REACTION HIROSHI TAKAHASHI	703
FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDIES OF IONIC AND ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT IN PALLADIUM HYDRIDE N. LUO and G.H. MILEY	709
V. Theory — Resonant Tunneling
THE APPLICATION OF MULTIPLE SCATTERING THEORY IN CALCULATING THE DEUTERIUM FLUX PERMEATING A Pd THIN FILM SI CHEN and XING Z. LI	717
BETHE’S CALCULATION FOR SOLAR ENERGY AND SELECTIVE RESONANT TUNNELING XIANG ZHOU, XING Z. LI and BIN LIU	729
V. Theory — Ion Band States
NUTS AND BOLTS OF THE ION BAND STATE THEORY SCOTT R. CHUBB	735
THE DD COLD FUSION-TRANSMUTATION CONNECTION TALBOT A. CHUBB	753
LENR: SUPERFLUIDS, SELF-TRAPPING AND NON-SELF-TRAPPING STATES TALBOT A. CHUBB	767
IMPACT OF BOUNDARY EFFECTS INVOLVING BROKEN GAUGE SYMMETRY ON LENR’S SCOTT R. CHUBB	771
V. Theory — Bose-Einstein Condensate Approach
QUANTUM MANY-BODY THEORY OF LOW ENERGY NUCLEAR REACTION INDUCED BY ACOUSTIC CAVITATION IN DEUTERATED LIQUID YEONG E. KIM, DAVID S. KOLTICK and ALEXANDER L. ZUBAREV	779
EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF BOSE–EINSTEIN CONDENSATION MECHANISM FOR LOW ENERGY NUCLEAR REACTION IN NANOSCALE ATOMIC CLUSTERS YEONG E. KIM, DAVID S. KOLTICK, RYAN PRENGER, JEFF MYERS and RHODA KOLTICK	789
QUANTUM STATES OF DEUTERONS IN PALLADIUM KEN-ICHI TSUCHIYA	801
V. Theory — Multibody Fusion
MECHANISM OF DEUTERON CLUSTER FUSION BY EQPET MODEL AKITO TAKAHASHI	809
ANALYSIS OF NUCLEAR TRANSMUTATION INDUCED FROM METAL PLUS MULTIBODY-FUSION-PRODUCTS REACTION MASAYUKI OHTA and AKITO TAKAHASHI	819
TRIPLE DEUTERIUM FUSION BY THREE BODY RECOMBINATION BETWEEN DEUTERON AND THE NUCLEI OF LATTICE TRAPPED DEUTERIUM MOLECULES K. C. ENGVILD and L. KOWALSKI	825
V. Theory — Preparata Theory
ARE NUCLEAR TRANSMUTATIONS OBSERVED AT LOW ENERGIES CONSEQUENCES OF QED COHERENCE? E. DEL GIUDICE, A. DE NINNO and A. FRATTOLILLO	831
V. Theory — Phonon Coupling
UNIFIED PHONON-COUPLED SU(N) MODELS FOR ANOMALIES IN METAL DEUTERIDES PETER L. HAGELSTEIN	837
RESONANT TUNNELING AND RESONANT EXCITATION TRANSFER PETER L. HAGELSTEIN	871
FEW-BODY NUCLEAR WAVE FUNCTIONS IRFAN CHAUDHARY and PETER L. HAGELSTEIN	887
COHERENCE FACTORS IN MANY-PARTICLE THREE-LEVEL SYSTEMS IRFAN CHAUDHARY and PETER L. HAGELSTEIN	903
V. Theory — Neutron Clusters
THEORY OF LOW-TEMPERATURE PARTICLE SHOWERS JOHN C. FISHER	915
CF-MATTER AND THE COLD FUSION PHENOMENON HIDEO KOZIMA	919
V. Theory — Other
THE THEORY AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF CONTROLLED SPONTANEOUS CONVERSION NUCLEAR DECAY OF RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES V.I. VYSOTSKII, A.A. KORNILOVA, YU. D. PERFILIEV and L.A. KULIKOV	929
THE COLD FUSION PHENOMENON: A HYPOTHESIS COLIN K. CAMPBELL	937
VI. Other Topics
THE LENR-CANR.ORG WEBSITE, ITS PAST AND FUTURE J. ROTHWELL and E. STORMS	939
TEACHERS DEBATE COLD FUSION LUDWIK KOWALSKI	943
THE DILEMMA OF A PHYSICS TEACHER LUDWIK KOWALSKI	953
“COLD FUSION” MAY BE PART OF A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION E. H. LEWIS	959
THE BALL LIGHTNING STATE IN COLD FUSION E.H. LEWIS	973
LENR AND “COLD FUSION” EXCESS HEAT: THEIR RELATION TO OTHER ANOMALOUS MICROPHYSICAL ENERGY EXPERIMENTS AND EMERGING NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES EUGENE F. MALLOVE	983
VII. Post-Deadline Papers
GENERALIZED CAUSE AND EFFECT DEMONSTRATION PROTOCOL ROBERT W. BASS and MICHAEL C. H. MCKUBRE	1005
OPTIMAL LASER WAVELENGTH FOR RESONANT TRANSMISSION THROUGH THE COULOMB BARRIER ROBERT W. BASS	1009
BACK MATTER	1015
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