Cold fusion/Recent sources

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Job for an enthusiastic student: add to each of the papers below, where it exists, a convenience link so that the paper may be read easily, for people without academic or library access. Most papers may be found on http://lenr-canr.org

In 2004, the United States Department of energy reviewed the field of low energy nuclear reactions, and, compared to the 1989 view, there was much more support for the hypothesis that nuclear reactions were taking place in "cold fusion" experiments, than there had been in 1989, when the panel was almost unanimous in rejecting the idea, with maybe two holdouts. 2004 may have been the nadir of cold fusion publication under peer review, see Rothwell analysis at lenr-canr.org, based on the bibliography of Dieter Britz.

This source list is intended to look at publications after the 2004 DoE review, which appeared in December, 2004, so it begins with 2005. We will examine, as well, the publishers of journals and books.

Note: it would be useful to know what responses these various papers obtained in the journals. Those responses are not necessarily found easily and often will not be available on-line. So if any student or interested person can look up these articles and look in subsequent issues for responses, and describe them, perhaps on Talk, here, at first, it would be very useful. It helps to understand if a review or original research paper, for example, was accepted generally or not.

Adding links to that actual journal page, and to preprints or copies of the papers, when they are available, would help with the use of this resource.

Publishers

  • The Journal of Scientific Exploration publishes material consistent with the Society’s mission: to provide a professional forum for critical discussion of topics that are for various reasons ignored or studied inadequately within mainstream science, and to promote improved understanding of social and intellectual factors that limit the scope of scientific inquiry. Topics of interest cover a wide spectrum, ranging from apparent anomalies in well-established disciplines to paradoxical phenomena that seem to belong to no established discipline, as well as philosophical issues about the connections among disciplines.'.
  • Surface and Coatings Technology
  • Encyclopaedia of Electrochemical Power Sources
  • International Journal of Nuclear Energy Science and Technology

Peer-reviewed papers and academic publications

Britz provides for papers in his bibliography, his brief summary or comment, sometimes it is merely the paper's abstract. Papers listed by Britz that are not about cold fusion, but perhaps bubble fusion or piezonuclear fusion (which are hot fusion if they exist) are not shown.

Bolding of reviews of the field

Below, sources are bolded which are reviews of the field or some aspect of the field, specifically. There are some sources which are not specific reviews, but which mention or use cold fusion as an example of "pathological science," which seem to be more in the nature of tertiary sources and which don't examine the topic itself. They appear to assume bogosity. The reviews bolded, however, are of varying depth.

A paper like that of Shanahan (2005) is partially a review of an aspect of the field, but almost solely from the point of view of presenting an opposing hypothesis, and then, of course, responses are a form of review of the criticism. These are not bolded. Most papers in the field, to some extent, review work that came before, but only broader reviews of the field or an aspect of the field are bolded.

Quibbles: The papers "Controversy in chemistry: how do you prove a negative? The cases of phlogiston and cold fusion" (2005), "Indicators of failed information epidemics in the scientific journal literature: a publication analysis of polywater and cold nuclear fusion (2006) appear to be papers on scientific sociology, not reviews of the science itself; and there is one critical Letter, published in 2010, that is a response by Kirk Shanahan to a 2009 paper in the same journal, and it was copublished with a response by other scientists in the field. This was not counted as a "review." It is a response to a review, just as the copublished paper was a response to the response.

2005

See Britz 2005.

  • reported transmutation of elements. The title is similar to this conference paper:
  • about the "short life but long afterlife of cold fusion." (Britz)
  • discussions:
  • argues for recombination under the electrolyte surface (Britz).
  • discusses possible fusion at very low temperatures.

2006

2007

2008

See Britz 2008

  • Chubb, Scott R., "Resonant Electromagnetic Interaction in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions" Research Systems Inc., Burke, VA
  • De Ninno, Antonella[1], Del Giudice, Emilio[2], Frattolillo, Antonio[1], "Excess Heat and Calorimetric Calculation Evidence of Coherent Nuclear Reactions in Condensed Matter at Room Temperature," [1]ENEA, Centro Ricerche Frascati, Frascati, Roma, Italy [2]INFN Milano – Milano, Italy
  • Fleischmann, Martin, "Background to Cold Fusion: The Genesis of a Concept," U.K.
  • Hagelstein, Peter L. and Chaudhary, Irfan U., "Models Relevant to Excess Heat Production in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments," Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • Krivit, Steven B., "Low Energy Nuclear Reactions—The Emergence of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science," Editor, New Energy Times
  • Letts, Dennis[1], Cravens, Dennis[2] and Hagelstein, Peter L. [3], "Thermal Changes in Palladium Deuteride Induced by Laser Beat Frequencies," [1] Austin, TX [2] Cloudcroft, NM [3] MIT, Cambridge, MA
  • Li, X. Z., Wei, Q.M. and Liu, B., "An Approach to Nuclear Energy Without Strong Nuclear Radiation," Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • Marwan, Jan, "Study of the Nanostructured Palladium Hydride System," Dr Marwan Chemie, Berlin, Germany
  • McKubre, M. C. H. [1], Tanzella, F. L. [1], Dardik, I. [2], El Boher, A. [3], Zilov, T. [3], Greenspan, E. [4], Sibilia, C. [5] and Violante, V. [6], "Replication of Condensed Matter Heat Production," [1] SRI International, Menlo Park, CA [2] Energetics LLC, Califon, NJ, USA [3] Energetics Technologies, Omer, Israel, [4] Energetics Technologies and U.C. Berkeley, CA [5] University di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, [6] ENEA Centro Ricerche Frascati, Frascati, Italy
  • Miles, Melvin H. [1] and Fleischmann, Martin [2], "Accuracy of Isoperibolic Calorimetry Used in a Cold Fusion Control Experiment," [1]Department of Chemistry, University of LaVerne, LaVerne, CA [2] U.K
  • *Miley, George H. and Shrestha, Prajakti J., "Transmutation Reactions and Associated LENR Effects in Solids," Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
  • Mizuno, Tadahiko, "Transmutation Reactions in Condensed Matter Laboratory of Nuclear and Environmental Materials," Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University
  • Mosier-Boss, Pamela A. [1], Szpak, Stanislaw [1], Gordon, Frank E. [1] and Forsley, Lawrence P.G. [2], "Detection of Energetic Particles and Neutrons Emitted During Pd/D Co-Deposition," [1]SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego, CA [2]JWK International Corp., Annandale, VA
  • Storms, Edmund, "How to Explain Cold Fusion?", Energy K. Systems, Santa Fe, NM, 87501
  • Takahashi, Akito and Yabuuchi, Norio, "Study on 4D/TSC Condensation Motion by Non-Linear Langevin Equation," High Scientific Research Laboratory, Tsu, Mie, Japan
  • Vysotskii, Vladimir I. [1], Tashyrev, Alexandr B. [2] and Kornilova, Alla A. [3], "Experimental Observation and Modeling of Cs-137 Isotope Deactivation and Stable Isotopes Transmutation in Biological Cells," [1]Kiev Shevchenko University, Kiev, Ukraine, [2] Kiev Institute of Microbiology, Kiev, Ukraine, [3] Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

2009

  • Replication of Arata-Zhang.
includes reviews
  • M. E. Little and S. R. Little, Cold fusion: fact or fantasy?, 407-409
  • M. E. Little and S. R. Little, "Extraordinary evidence" replication effort, 411-417
  • S. B. Krivit, Low-energy nuclear reactions research: 2008 ACS update, 439-441
  • A. DeNinno, Understanding low energy nuclear reactions, 442-445
  • M. McKubre, From cold fusion to condensed matter nuclear science:20 years of research, 445-448
  • S. R. Chubb, Overcoming the Coulomb barrier and related effects through resonant electrodynamics and quantum mechanics in the Fleischmann-Pons effect, 448-452
  • N. Robertson and H. Saito and J. Yurkovic and S. Zakskorn, Field assisted electroplating, 452-455
  • A. DeNinno, From the proof of principle to the working prototype, 456-458
  • D. Letts and D. Cravens and P. L. Hagelstein, Dual laser stimulation of optical phonons in palladium deuteride, 459-461
  • J. Dash and Q. Wang and E. F. Mallove, Composition of particles in heavy water electrolyte after electrolysis, 462-465
  • J. Marwan Study of the palladium hydrogen-deuterium system, 465-468
  • M. H. Miles and M. Fleischmann, Twenty-year review of isoperobolic calorimetric measurements of the Fleischmann-Pons effect, 469-473
  • P. A. Mosier-Boss and S. Szpak and F. E: Gordon and L. P. G. Forsley, Characterization of neutrons emitted during Pd/D co-deposition, 473-477
  • M. Srinivasan Observation of high multiplicity neutron emission events from deuterated Pd and Ti samples at BARC: a review, 477-482
  • M. Srinivasan, Observation of neutrons and tritium in a wide variety of lenr configuration: BARC results revisited, 483-491
  • M. R. Swartz, Survey of the observed excess energy and emissions in lattice assisted nuclear fusion, 419-436
  • M. Swartz, Excess heat and electrical characteristics of type "B" anode-plate high-impedance phusor LANR devices, 491-495
  • V. I. Vysotskii and A. A. Kornilova, Nuclear transmutation of isotopes in biological systems (history, models, experiments, perspectives), 496-500

2010

  • J.-P Biberian, Low energy nuclear reactions in gas phase: a comprehensive review, 9-34
  • D. Letts and D. Cravens and P. L. Hagelstein, Dual laser stimulation and optical phonons in palladium deuteride, 81-93
  • S. R. Chubb, Overcoming the Coulomb barrier and related effects through resonant electrodynamics and quantum mechanics in the Fleischmann-Pons excess heat effect, 177-192
  • J. Dash and Q. Wang and D. S. Silver, Excess heat and anomalous isotopes and isotopic ratios from the interaction of palladium with hydrogen isotopes, 61-80
  • H. Hora and N. Ghahramani and G. H. Miley and M. Ghanaatian and M. Hooshmand and K. Philberth and F. Osman, Quark-gluon model for magic numbers related to low energy nuclear reactions, 219-234,
  • A. Lipson and I. Chernov and A. Roussetski and Yu. Chеrdantsev and A. Tsivadze and B. Lyakhov and E. Saunin and M. Melich, Hot deuteron generation and charged particle emissions on excitation of deuterium subsystem in metal deuterides, 95-117
  • G. H. Miley and H. Hora and K. Philberth and A. Lipson and P. J. Shrestha, Radiochemical comparisons on low energy nuclear reactions and uranium, 235-252
  • P. A. Mosier-Boss and F. E. Gordon and L. P. G. Forsley, Characterization of energetic particles emitted during -Pd/D co-deposition for use in a radioisotope thermoelectric generator -RTG), 119-135
  • M. Srinivasan, Wide-ranging studies on the emission of neutrons and tritium by -LENR configurations: an historical review of the early -BARC results, 35-57
  • Y. N. Srivastava and A. Widom and L. Larsen, A primer for electro-weak induced low energy nuclear reactions, 253-270
  • A. Takahashi, The basics of deuteron-cluster dynamics as shown by a Langevin equation, 193-217
this is not a cold fusion claim. It would be hot fusion, neutrons are claimed as product. "Piezonuclear fusion" is a known phenomenon under some conditions, involving high voltages generated during, in this claim, crystal fracture.

2011

2012

Abstract. "It has recently been argued that inverse-beta nuclear transmutations might occur at an impressively high rate in a thin layer at a metallic hydride surface under specific conditions. In this note we present a calculation of the transmutation rate, which shows that there is little room for such a remarkable effect." Britz: In other words, Widom and Larsen are wrong.
Abstract. We studied heat production in Pd-impregnated alumina powder in the presence of hydrogen and deuterium gases, investigating claims of anomalous heat generated as a result of nuclear fusion, usually referred to as a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR). By selecting the water isotope used to fabricate the material and then varying the gas used for loading, we were able to influence the amount of heat released or consumed. We suggest that Pd in its nanoparticle form catalyzes hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) exchange reactions in the material. This hypothesis is supported by heat measurements, residual gas analysis (RGA) data, and calculations of energy available from H/D exchange reactions. Based on the results we conclude that the origin of the anomalous heat generated during deuterium loading of Pd-enriched alumina powder is chemical rather than nuclear.
Abstract. A solid state nuclear track detector, CR-39, was exposed to DT neutrons. After etching, the resultant tracks were analyzed using both an optical microscope and a scanning electron microscope (SEM). In this communication, both methods of analyzing DT neutron tracks are discussed.
(Originally in Russian, in Yader. Fiz. 75 (2012) 174-180)
Abstract (?). Recent accelerator experiments on fusion of various elements have clearly demonstrated that the effective cross-sections of these reactions depend on what material the target particle is placed in. In these experiments, there was a significant increase in the probability of interaction when target nuclei are imbedded in a conducting crystal or are a part of it. These experiments open a new perspective on the problem of so-called cold nuclear fusion."

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(Britz is currently working on adding the 34 papers from Current Science)

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