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Special Collection
ICCF-10 Conference
Brief Summary of Abstracts
Edmund Storms
These brief summaries (below) are based on abstracts submitted by the authors and are provided to show an interested person the kind of studies to be discussed at ICCF-10. This listing does not guarantee that all papers will be actually given at ICCF-10. This list includes the title, author, and the summary written by Storms (in bold print). Items are sorted by the principal author's last name.
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Experimental Observation And Possible Way Of Creation Of Anomalous
Isotopes And Stable Superheavy Nuclei Via Process Of Electron-Nuclear
Collapse A variety of nuclear reactions are proposed to be produced by a superheavy particle that is generated in the machine they use. |
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Ascending Diffusion Or Transmutation Surface of palladium exposed to discharge in D2 gas is examined by XPS and found to contain many transmutation products. |
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High-Frequency Radiation And Tritium Channel. Titanium exposed to D2 at 840°C and 24 Kpa emits high frequency radiation and generates tritium. |
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Characteristics of Compact and Practical “Solid Deuterium Nuclear
Fusion Reactor” An undefined material is welded in D2 gas and found to produce He-4. |
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Chief Challenge to Cold Fusion Theory? Proposes a theory that can be tested by predicting whether nuclear effects occur in the four combinations: H2+Ni, D2+Ni, H2+Pd, and D2+Pd. |
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Generalized Cold Fusion Demonstration Protocol Proposes a mathematical protocol to test the reality of cold fusion. |
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MetaStable Deuterium (MSD) as Ideal Cold Fusion Fuel Proposes metastable deuterium (MSD) as an ideal cold fusion fuel. |
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Optimal Wavelength for Laser-Induced Cold Fusion Proposes to calculate the ideal wavelength required to initiate the Letts effect as being 40.38 nm. |
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Spectrum of Resonant Transparency of Coulomb Barrier Proposes to calculate the spectrum of resonant transparency for coulomb barrier. |
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The Cold Fusion Phenomenon: a Hypothesis Proposes a process to explain cold fusion energy. |
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Catalytic Fusion of Deuterium: II, Heat Output and Activation Energy
from New Palladium Catalyst Compares heat generated when a 0.1%Pd catalyst is exposed to either H2 or D2. |
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Energetic Charged Particles from Deuterium-Metal Systems Describes energetic particle emission from metal systems containing deuterium and subjected to changes in temperature and electric current. |
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Thermal and isotopic anomalies when Pd cathodes are electrolysed in
electrolytes containing Th-Hg salts dissolved at micromolar concentration
in C
2H
5OD/D
2O mixtures. Describes studies using a new electrolyte based on C2H5OD/D2O mixtures containing Th(NO3)4 and a Pd cathode. Anomalous energy and elements are detected. |
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Coherence Factors In Many-Particle Three-Level Systems Proposes a model based on coherence factors in a many particle system. |
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Few-Body Nuclear Wavefunctions Proposes a model to describe anomalies in metal deuterides involving constructed antisymmetric wavefunctions for the three-nucleon and four-nucleon states. |
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The Application of Multiple Scattering Theory (MST) in Calculating the
Deuterium Flux Permeating the Pd Thin Film Peaks in the diffusion rate of D in Pd are observed and attributed to resonance processes that come about as deuterons pass through Pd. |
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Comment On Carbon Production In Deuterium-Metal Systems Describes studies of the surface of cathodes made from Pd or sputtered films of Pd or Ti. Abnormal amounts of carbon are found on the surfaces after electrolysis. |
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Accountability in Research in the Cold Fusion Controversy Describes his effort to get the cold fusion experience published in Accountability in Research. |
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Concerning The Roles of Theory, Computation, and Experiment In
LENR's Describes the history and basic assumptions of the ion band state theory. |
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Impact of Boundary Effects Involving Broken Gauge Symmetry on
LENR's Goes into greater detail about the ion band state theory and applies it to the Iwamura experiments. |
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LENR: Self-Trapping and Non Self-Trapping States Explains the difference between self-trapping and nonself-trapping of D+ in a Pd lattice and how the presence of CaO in the Iwamura experiment can make more nonself-trapped D+. |
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LENR: The Cold Fusion and Transmutation Connection Proposes that lattice size determine whether transmutation or fusion can occur by a coherent process. |
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Practical Techniques in CF Research To be submitted |
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Effects Of Hydrogen Loading By Aqueous Electrolysis On Radioactivity Of
Uranium Uranium was electrolyzed as the cathode in an electrolyte containing H2O. Changes in the emitted radiation are observed that indicated increased decay rate to Th234. |
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4He Detection In A Cold Fusion Experiment Describes measurement of heat and He4 from Pd electrolyzed in LiOD. |
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Are Nuclear Transmutations Observed At Low Energies Consequences Of Qed
Coherence? Discusses whether the fusion reaction itself can initiate additional nuclear reactions. |
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Triple D Fusion Between Deuterons And The Nuclei Of Lattice Trapped D
2 Molecules Discusses three-boson interaction to explain fusion between three D in a metal lattice. |
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Theory of Low-Temperature Particle Showers Proposes to explain a shower of particles observed to originate from the gas space within an electrolytic cell using the idea of halo nuclei containing polyneutrons. |
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Background To Cold Fusion: The Genesis Of A Concept Gives the early history of the cold fusion experiments done by P-F. |
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The “Instrument Function” of Isoperibolic Calorimeters Excess Enthalpy
Generation Due To The Parasitic Reduction of Oxygen Describes the basis of P-F calorimetric studies and how the measurements were converted into correct values to obtain excess energy. |
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Stabilization of High-Level, Radioactive Waste Proposes to explain the P-F effect as resulting from the effect of charged clusters. |
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New Energy Devices Reduce Atmospheric Pollution Suggests that various new energy devices can reduce atmospheric polution. |
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Fusion Reaction Within A Microcrack With CFC Lattice Structure At Low
Energy And Study Of The Non Semi-Classic Tunneling Effect
Proposes that microcracks in cubic deuterides, combined with
concentration of certain impurities, can reduce the height of the Coulomb
barrier for D-D fusion.
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New Type Of Radioactivity Proposes a model involving novel radioactive decay that is influenced by applied frequencies consistent with the size of the nucleus. |
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Unified Phonon-Coupled SU(N) Models For Anomalies In Metal
Deuterides Describes a model in which energy is communicated between two lattice sites by phonons, thereby allowing nuclear reactions to take place and the resulting energy release to be communicated to the lattice. |
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Thermal to Electric Energy Conversion -- Basics, Limits, and
Potential
Thermoelectric energy conversion is discussed and the method is
applied to converting cold fusion heat to electric power.
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Models For Tunneling Through The Coulomb Barrier Gives a history of his theoretical approach ending with a description of the role of phonons in enhancing nuclear reactions. |
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Analysis of Calorimetric Data Obtained Using Fleischmann/Pons Type
Electrochemical Cells to Determine Excess Heat The P-F calorimetric method is analyzed and applied in a general way to other calorimeters of similar type. |
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Replication Of MHI Transmutation Experiment By D
2 Gas Permeation Through Pd Complex Replication of the Iwamura experiment is described, including a search for He4. |
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Report on Several On-Going Low Energy Nuclear Reaction Projects at
NRL Several efforts to replicate previous methods for producing LENR are being undertaken at NRL and the progress will be reported. |
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Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation in Condensed Matter induced by D
2 Gas Permeation through Pd Complexes: Correlation between
Deuterium Flux and Nuclear Products The previous observation that Cs can be converted to Pr in a Pd-CaO structure during passage of D2 is being studied in more detail and the results are described. |
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Evidence for Charged Particles Emanating from Deuterided Metal
Foils Partially deuterated Ti foils are found to emit charged particles consistent with the reaction d + d = t + p. |
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Increase of the Output of Neutrons in Relation to Background Deuterium
Containing Electrolite at Their Electrochemical Decomposition -
Superelectrolytes Electrolysis using higher than normal voltage is used to increase the rate of various nuclear reactions that generate neutrons. |
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Experimental Research into Characteristics of X-ray Emission from
Solid-state Cathode Medium of High-current Glow Discharge X-ray emission is measured from a high-current gas discharge device using various gases and targets. Evidence for X-ray lasers is given. |
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Experimental Research into Secondary Penetrating Radiation when
Interacting X-ray Beams of Solid Laser with Various Materials Targets Characteristics of the X-radiation from the high-current gas discharge device are described. |
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Production of Excess Heat Power and Impurity Elements with Changed
Natural Ratio of Isotopes at Forming Exited Long-lived Atomic Levels with
the Energy more than 1 keV in the Solid Cathode Medium of High-current
Glow Discharge Excess power measurements are described using a high-current gas discharge device. |
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Low-Energy Nuclear Fusion Reactions In Metals Various metals are bombarded by < 80 keV D+ and the rate of the reaction D(d,p)T is studied as a function of ion energy. |
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Experimental Test of Bose-Einstein Condensation Mechanism for Low
Energy Nuclear Reaction in Nanoscale Atomic Clusters Describes calculations based on identical charged integer-spin nuclei (“Bose” nuclei) confined in ion traps and predicts that the fusion rate will increase as temperature is lowered. An experimental test of the prediction is described. |
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Quantum Many-Body Theory of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction Induced by
Acoustic Cavitation in Deuterated Liquid Applies the above model to improving the bubble cavitation experiments that are reported to generate neutrons. |
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Calculations of Nuclear Reactions Probability in a Crystal Lattice of
Titanium Deuteride TiD is examined as a host for the D-D fusion reaction using a computational method based on how close two D+ ions would get within the lattice. |
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D(d,p)t Reaction Rate Enhancement in a Mixed Layer of Au and Pd A sample of Pd-Au is bombarded using 15-25 keV D2+ ions and the reaction rate for the reaction D(d,p)t is found to be two orders of magnitude above expectations. |
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Experimental Observation Of Fusion Of Precious Metals In Growing
Microbiological Associations The nuclear reaction W186 + Be9 = Pt195 is proposed to be initiated in microbiological cultures. |
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Cold Fusion Messages from Teachers E-mail messages about cold fusion from teachers are described. |
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CF-Matter and the Cold Fusion Phenomenon A model based on “neutron drops” is used to explain cold fusion. |
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Laser Stimulation of Deuterated Palladium: Past and Present Describes a study using a low-power laser to stimulate heat production in a P-F cell. |
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Characteristics and Effects of Ball Lightning Describes an explanation for cold fusion based on ball lightning, similar to the EVs proposed by Ken Shoulder. |
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Cold Fusion May be Part of a Scientific Revolution This is a philosophical paper about the relationship of CF to crisis events. |
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Progress in Gas-Loading D/Pd System, —The feasibility of a
self-sustaining heat generator— When a thin film of Pd is heated to a special temperature and deuterium is caused to pass through it, anomalous energy is observed. |
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Neutron Yield on the Electric Breakdown of Cavitation Bubbles in
Deuterium-Containing Matter Describes a sonic cavatation experiment and provides an explanation for observation of neutron emission. |
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Strong Enhancement of DD-reaction Accompanied by X-ray Generation in a
Pulsed Low Voltage High-Current Deuterium Glow Discharge with a
Ti-Cathode A high-current pulsed gas discharge device is described that shows anomalous behavior based on X-ray and 3 MeV proton emissions. |
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Triggering A Deuterium Flux In Pd Wire Using Electromagnetic Field A Pd wire is inductively coupled to a source of AC frequency and anomalous heat is observed when the wire is exposed to D2 gas while an AC voltage is induced. |
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Enhancement of nuclear reactions due to screening effects of core
electrons Screening effects in an atomic lattice are described and explored using a computer program. |
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First-principles studies of ionic and electronic transport in palladium
hydride/deuteride The effects of ion and electron transport within the atomic lattice are explored to explain LENR. |
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LENR and “Cold Fusion” Excess Heat: Their Relation to Other Anomalous
Microphysical Energy Experiments and Emerging New Energy Technologies Proposes that the heat observed in typical cold fusion experiments may have unique and important sources other than nuclear. |
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Evidence of cold fusion in Palladium exposed to atomic Deuterium Describes an experiment where Pd is loaded with D2 at low temperature by exposure to gas discharge and then deloaded. Neutron production and a beta emitter are observed. |
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The need for Triggering in Cold Fusion reactions To be submitted |
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A Calorimetric Investigation Of The Pd / B System Describes excess heat measurement obtained using a Pd-B cathode and the ICARUS-2 calorimeter at the NHE laboratory (Japan). |
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Correlation Of Excess Enthalpy And Helium-4 Production: A
Review Describes and summarizes a study sponsored by the Navy showing the relationship between P-F heat and the resulting He4. |
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Fluidized Bed Experiments Using Platinum And Palladium Particles In
Heavy Water Small particles of Pd are used as the cathode and subjected to steady and pulsed electrolysis. Excess energy is observed. |
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Review of Transmutation Reactions in Highly Loaded Lattice Transmutation studies are reviewed and related to the possible unique conditions required for their initiation. |
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Generation Of Heat And Products During Plasma Electrolysis Describes the plasma electrolysis method from producing excess energy and shows how replications can be better accomplished. |
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Energetics Of Defects And Isotropic Strain In Palladium Explores the energy that might be contributed to the observed excess energy by defects and strains in Pd. |
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Gamma Ray Detection and Surface Analysis on Palladium Electrode in DC
Glow-like Discharge Experiment Pd subjected to gas discharge in D2 is found to emit gamma radiation that is proposed to result from transmutation reactions. |
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Analysis Of Nuclear Transmutation Induced From Metal Plus
Multibody-Fusion-Products Reaction A model involving multibody nuclear reactions is explored and applied to recent observations. |
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Detection of Energetic Charged Particles During Electrolysis A CR-39 detector is used to study charged particle emission during electrolysis of a P-F cell. |
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Energetic Charged Particles Detected in the Vapor in Electrolysis
Cells Energetic particles are detected in the gas above the electrolyte using CR-39 detectors in a P-F cell |
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Pd-110/Pd-108 Isotope Abundance Ratio Variations in Pd Exposed to High
Pressure Deuterium Gas in the Hollow Cathodes of Arata/ Zhang The isotopic abundance's of Pd110 and Pd108 are found to be abnormal in Pd used by Arata-Zhang after excess energy production. In addition, excessive Zn having an abnormal isotopic abundance is also found. |
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Observations Of A Porous Packed Bed Gaseous Deuterium Filled
Mini-Reactor
J. A. Patterson, J. A. O'Malley, C. E. Entenmann, J. A. Thompson A mixture of palladium powder and diatomaceous earth was compressed into a plug through which an electric current was passed while temperature was measured. Anomalous energy production is claimed when the material is exposed to D2 gas. |
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The Research of Positrons Annihilation and Possible Ways of P + D
Nuclear Reactions Used H2 and a low-energy glow-discharge method from which deuterium was found to be generated by the proposed (p + p + e = d + gamma) reaction. |
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Prospects of Intensity Increase of Nuclear Reactions at Low Energy
Interaction of Hydrogen Isotopes and Possible Areas of Their
Application Proposes that present knowledge allows the rate of heat and tritium generation to be substantially increased. |
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Tritium Generation At Low Energy Interaction Of Hydrogen Isotopes With
Metals Tritium generation is explored using mixed hydrogen isotopes and low
energy plasma. Use of a magnetic field at the surface of the target
increased tritium production by two orders of magnitude. |
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The LENR-CANR.ORG Website, Its Past And Future The LENR-CANR.org website is described and methods for its efficient use are shown. |
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Nuclear emissions from materials, including hydrogen and deuterium,
induced by laser beam Various materials containing hydrogen or deuterium are irradiated by a powerful laser and evidence for nuclear reactions is obtained from emitted radiation. |
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Phenomenon of an Energetic Charged Particle Emission From
Hydrogen/Deuterium Loaded Metal Energetic particles are emitted from Au/Pd/PdO when loaded by various methods. A similar behavior was observed for TiDx. |
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Transmutation Effects In Glow Discharge Hydrogen Experiments Pd is subjected to low-power gas discharge in D2 and the anomalous elements that are found to grow on the surface are analyzed using many different methods. |
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Analysis of Ni-Hydride Thin Film after Surface Plasmons Generation by
Laser Technique Application of a thin Ni film to a Ni surface is described and used to obtain basic information about electronic structure. |
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How to Make A Cheap and Effective Seebeck Calorimeter A method to construct a simple, accurate, and cheap Seebeck calorimeter is described. |
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Use of a very sensitive Seebeck calorimeter to study the
Pons-Fleischmann and Letts Effects A sensitive Seebeck calorimeter is used to study the Pons-Fleischmann and Letts effects, which shows repeated replication of both effects. |
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What are the conditions required to initiate the LENR Effect? A case is made for the location of nuclear activity in a P-F cell being incorrectly identified. |
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Cavitation And Fusion Refinements to the sonoluminescent method are described and the results of applying the method to thin foils of Ti and Pd are shown. |
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Excess Heat from Low Electrical Conductivity Heavy Water Spiral-Wound
Pd/D
2O/Pt and Pd/D
2O-PdCl
2/Pt Devices A palladium cathode is subjected co-deposition of palladium from an electrolytic solution (D2O+PdCl2) and anomalous energy is measured. |
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Photoinduced Excess Heat from Laser-Irradiated Electrically-Polarized
Palladium Cathodes in Heavy Water A low-power laser (670 nm) is used to stimulate anomalous energy production from a Pd cathode after co-deposition of Pd. |
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Mechanism of Deuteron Cluster Fusion by EQPET Model The multibody fusion model is further explained. |
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Studies on 3D Fusion Reactions in TiDx under Ion Beam Implantation Experimental studies using ion implantation are reviewed in light of the multibody fusion model. |
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Quantum States of Deuterons in Pd Various theories of cold fusion are reviewed and their historical interactions are shown. |
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Excess Heat in Molten Salts Of (LiCl-KCl)+(LiD+LiF) at the Titanium
Anode During Electrolysis A molten-salt (LiD) study using a Ti anode is described and indication of excess energy is shown. |
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Possibility Of Using Of Cold Fusion For Nuclear Waste Products
Transmutation Use of various methods to initiate cold fusion is suggested as a way to eliminate radioactive waste products by employing transmutation reactions. |
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Search for Nuclear Ashes in Electrochemical Experiments. A successful search for nuclear products produced by a P-F cell is described. |
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Study of Lattice Potentials on Low Energy Nuclear Processes in
Condensed Matter The effect of lattice potentials on screening and the resulting increased fusion rate is explored. |
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Successful Experiments of Utilization of High-Activity Waste in the
Process of Transmutation in Growing Associations of Microbiological
Cultures Ways to reduce the activity of highly radioactive material using microbiological systems and biological transmutation are studied. |
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The Theory And Experimental Investigation Of Controlled Spontaneous
Conversion Nuclear Decay Of Radioactive Isotopes Discusses a model and experiments showing how lattice environment changes the natural decay rate for certain kinds of radioactive decay. |
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Excess Heat in Heavy Water--Pd/C Catalyst Cathode (Case-type)
Electrolysis at the temperature near Boiling Point A “Case” catalyst is used as the cathode in an electrolytic cell and exess heat is observed. |
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Analysis by Time-of-flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy for Nuclear
Products in Hydrogen Penetration through Palladium A Pd foil subjected to diffusion of hydrogen was carefully analyzed and found to contain unexpected elements, many with an abnormal isotopic ratio. |
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Thermal effects of hydrogen diffusion across metallic tubes An analysis of thermal effects caused by H2 diffusing through a metal is given. |
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Anomalous heat absorption in closed Pd|D
2O electrolysis systems Using a sensitive Seebeck calorimeter, heat absorption, rather than heat generation, is occasionally found during electrolysis. |
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Loading ratios (H/Pd or D/Pd) monitored by the electrode potential Use of the cell potential or the electrode potential is suggested as a way to determine the average loading of a Pd cathode. |