ICCF-14

subpage of Proceedings

Proceedings of the
14th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science
and the
14th International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF-14)
10-15 August 2008
Washington DC

ISBN: 978-0-578-06694-3. Rights to the papers herein are reserved by their respective authors
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Front matter and table of contents. All files have been moderately compressed.

VOLUME 1
Preface	i
Calorimetry	1
Twenty Year Review of Isoperibolic Calorimetric Measurements of the Fleischmann-Pons Effect M. H. Miles and M. Fleischmann	6
The Method and Results Using Seebeck Calorimetry Edmund Storms	11
Construction of a Seebeck Envelope Calorimeter and Reproducibility of Excess Heat Wu-Shou Zhang, John Dash and Zhong-Liang Zhang	26
Mass Flow Calorimetry Michael C. H. McKubre and Francis Tanzella	32
MOAC – A High Accuracy Calorimeter for Cold Fusion Studies Scott R. Little, George A. Luce, Marissa E. Little	47
Constant Heat Flow Calorimeter T. V. Lautzenhiser, D. W. Phelps and M. Eisner	53
A Simple Calorimetric Method to Avoid Artifacts in a Controversial Field: The Ice Calorimeter Jacques Dufour, Xavier Dufour, Denis Murat and Jacques Foos	60
Heat Measurements	67
The Enabling Criteria of Electrochemical Heat: Beyond Reasonable Doubt Dennis Cravens and Dennis Letts	71
Ultrasonically-Excited Electrolysis Experiments at Energetics Technologies I. Dardik, T. Zilov, H. Branover, A. El-Boher, E. Greenspan, B. Khachaturov, V. Krakov, S. Lesin, A. Shapiro and M. Tsirlin	106
Excess Power Gain using High Impedance and Codepositional LANR Devices Monitored by Calorimetry, Heat Flow, and Paired Stirling Engines Mitchell Swartz	123
Anomalous Heat Generation during Hydrogenation of Carbon (Phenanthrene) Tadahiko Mizuno and Shigemi Sawada	147
Electric and Heat Measurements in High Voltage Electrolysis Cell Experiments A. B. Karabut and E. A. Karabut	169
Nuclear Reaction Products	176
Trace Analysis of Elements in a Palladium Matrix David A. Kidwell	180
Investigation of Nuclear Transmutation Using Multilayered CaO/X/Pd Samples Under Deuterium Permeation T. Yamaguchi, Y. Sasaki, T. Nohmi, A. Taniike, Y. Furuyama, A. Kitamura and A. Takahashi	195
Influence of Deuterium Gas Permeation on Surface Elemental Change of 88SrIon- Implanted Pd and Pd/CaO Multi-layer System T. Hioki, J. Gao, N. Takahashi, S. Hibi, A. Murase, T. Motohiro and J. Kasagi	203
Summary of the Transmutation Workshop Held in Association with ICCF-14 George H. Miley	212
Energetic Particle Measurements	217
Charged Particle Emission during Electron Beam Excitation of Deuterium Subsystem in Pd and Ti- Deuteride Targets Andrei Lipson, Ivan Chernov, Alexei Roussetski, Yuri Chardantsev, Boris Lyakhov, Eugeny Saunin and Michael Melich	220
Reproducible Evidence for the Generation of a Nuclear Reaction During Electrolysis R. A. Oriani	250
Detection of Radiation Emitted from LENR Edmund Storms and Brian Scanlan	263
Partial Replication of Storms/Scanlan Glow Discharge Radiation Rick Cantwell and Matt McConnell	288
New Results of Charged Particles Released From Deuterium-Loaded Metal at Low Temperature Songsheng Jiang, Jinghuai Li, Ming He, Shaoyong Wu, Jianqing Wang, Hongtao Zhang, Shunhe Yao, Yonggang Zhao and Chen Wang	299
Development of New Detector System for Charged Particle Emission Yu Toriyabe and Jirohta Kasagi	310
Ion Beam Experiments	316
Screening Potential for Nuclear Reactions in Condensed Matter J. Kasagi	318
Photon Measurements	326
Excess Heat Triggering by 532 nm Laser in a D/Pd Gas-Loading System J. Tian, L. H. Jin, B. J. Shen, Z. K. Weng and X. Lu	328
Stimulation of Optical Phonons in Deuterated Palladium Dennis Letts and Peter Hagelstein	333
Observation of Optical Phonon in Palladium Hydrides Using Raman Spectroscopy Ken-ichi Tsuchiya, Aya Watanabe, Masao Ozaki and Shigeru Sasabe	338
Non-Thermal Near-IR Emission from High Impedance and Codeposition LANR Devices Mitchell Swartz, Gayle Verner and Alan Weinberg	343
Research into Spectra of X-ray Emission from Solid Cathode Medium During and After High Current Glow Discharge Operation A. B. Karabut and E. A. Karabut	362
Gas Loading	368
Cold Fusion by Gas Loading: A Review Jean-Paul Biberian	370
Deuteron Electromigration in Thin Pd Wires Coated With Nano-Particles: Evidence for Ultra-Fast Deuterium Loading and Anomalous, Large Thermal Effects Francesco Celani, P. Marini, V. Di Stefano, A. Spallone, M. Nakamura, E. Purchi, O. M. Calamai , V. Andreassi, E. Righi, G. Trenta, A. Marmigi, G. Cappuccio, D. Hampai, F. Todarello, U. Mastromatteo, A. Mancini, F. Falcioni, M. Marchesini, P. Di Biagio, U. Martini, P. G. Sona, F. Fontana, L. Gamberale and D. Garbelli	385
Basic Research on Condensed Matter Nuclear Reaction Using Pd Powders Charged With High Density Deuterium T. Nohmi, Y. Sasaki, T. Yamaguchi, A. Taniike, A. Kitamura, A. Takahashi, R. Seto and Y. Fujita	400
VOLUME 2
Cavitation Experiments	409
Bubble Driven Fusion Roger Stringham	411
Investigation of Radiation Effects at Bubble Cavitation in Running Liquid Alla A. Kornilova, Vladimir I. Vysotskii, Nickolai N. Sysoev and Andrey V. Desyatov	418
Materials	425
Material Science on Pd-D System to Study the Occurrence of Excess Power V. Violante, F. Sarto, E. Castagna, M. Sansovini, S. Lecci, D. L. Knies, K. S. Grabowski, and G. K. Hubler	429
Electrode Surface Morphology Characterization by Atomic Force Microscopy. F. Sarto, E. Castagna, M. Sansovini, S. Lecci, V. Violante, D. L. Knies, K. S. Grabowski, and G. K. Hubler	437
Metallurgical Characterization of Pd Electrodes Employed in Calorimetric Experiments Under Electrochemical Deuterium Loading E. Castagna, M. Sansovini, S. Lecci, A. Rufoloni, F. Sarto, V. Violante, D. L. Knies, K. S. Grabowski, and G. K. Hubler, M. McKubre and F. Tanzella	444
Condensed Matter “Cluster” Reactions in LENRs George H. Miley, Heinz Hora and Xiaoling Yang	451
The Phusor®-type LANR Cathode is a Metamaterial Creating Deuteron Flux for Excess Power Gain Mitchell Swartz and Gayle Verner	458
Theory Papers	475
The Possible Mechanism of Creation of Light Magnetic Monopoles in Strong Magnetic Field of a Laboratory System V. Adamenko and V. I. Vysotskii	484
Heavy Electrons in Nano-Structure Clusters of Disordered Solids Dimiter Alexandrov	490
Empirical System Identification (ESID) and Optimal Control of Lattice-Assisted Nuclear Reactors Robert W. Bass and Mitchell Swartz	497
Can Established Physical Principles Explain Solid-State Fusion? Ben R. Breed	503
Resonant Electromagnetic-Dynamics Explains the Fleischmann-Pons Effect Scott R. Chubb	521
Interface Model of Cold Fusion Talbot A. Chubb	534
Toward an Explanation of Transmutation Products on Palladium Cathodes Norman D. Cook	540
An Experimental Device to Test the YPCP (“Yukawa Pico Chemistry And Physics”) Model: Implications for the CF-LENR Field Jacques Dufour, Xavier Dufour, Denis Murat and Jacques Foos	546
Investigation of Deuteron-Deuteron Cold Fusion in a Cavity Cheng-ming Fou	553
“The Coulomb Barrier not Static in QED” A correction to the Theory by Preparata on the Phenomenon of Cold Fusion and Theoretical Hypothesis Fulvio Frisone	556
Quantum Fusion Hypothesis Robert E. Godes	573
Excitation Transfer and Energy Exchange Processes for Modeling The Fleischmann-Pons Excess Heat Effect Peter L Hagelstein and Irfan U Chaudhary	579
Input to Theory from Experiment in the Fleischmann-Pons Effect Peter L. Hagelstein, Michael Melich and Rodney Johnson	586
A Theoretical Formulation for Problems in Condensed Matter Nuclear Science Peter Hagelstein, Irfan Chaudhary, Michael Melich and Rodney Johnson	596
Theory of Low-Energy Deuterium Fusion in Micro/Nano-Scale Metal Grains and Particles Yeong E. Kim	604
Complexity in the Cold Fusion Phenomenon Hideo Kozima	613
Nuclear Transmutations in Polyethylene (XLPE) Films and Water Tree Generation in Them Hideo Kozima and Hiroshi Date	618
Exploring a Self-Sustaining Heater without Strong Nuclear Radiation Xing Z. Li, Bin Liu, Qing M. Wei, Shu X. Zheng and Dong X. Cao	623
A Model for Enhanced Fusion Reaction in a Solid Matrix of Metal Deuterides K. P. Sinha and A. Meulenberg	633
Optimal Operating Point Manifolds in Active, Loaded Palladium Linked to Three Distinct Physical Regions Mitchell Swartz	639
Analysis and Confirmation of the “Superwave-as-Transitory–OOP-Peak” Hypothesis Mitchell R. Swartz and Lawrence P.G. Forsley	653
Dynamic Mechanism of TSC Condensation Motion Akito Takahashi	663
Challenges and Summary	670
The Importance of Replication Michael C. H. McKubre	673
Electrical Breakeven from LANR Phusor Device Systems: Relative Limitations of Thermal Loss in Feedback Loop Mitchell Swartz	689
Self-Polarisation of Fusion Diodes: From Excess Energy to Energy Fabrice David and John Giles	696
Weight of Evidence for the Fleischmann-Pons Effect Rodney Johnson and Michael Melich	704
Nuclear or Not Nuclear: How to Decide? Ludwik Kowalski	723
Open Source Science Applied to CMNS Research: A Paradigm for Enhancing Cold Fusion Prospects and the Public Interest Thomas W. Grimshaw	729
ICCF-14 Summary Thomas O. Passell	737
Honoring Pioneers	742
In Honor of Yoshiaki Arata Talbot A. Chubb	743
Establishment of the “Solid Fusion” Reactor Yoshiaki Arata and Y-C Zhang	752
LENR Research using Co-Deposition S. Szpak, P. A. Mosier-Boss, F. Gordon, J. Dea, M. Miles, J. Khim and L. Forsley	766
SPAWAR Systems Center-Pacific Pd:D Co-Deposition Research: Overview of Refereed LENR Publications S. Szpak, P. A. Mosier-Boss, F. Gordon, J. Dea, J. Khim and L. Forsley	772
Preparata Prize Acceptance Speech I. Dardik	778
Cold Fusion Country History Project Xing Z. Li, Jean-Paul Biberian, Jacques Dufour, M. Srinivasan, F. Scaramuzzi, J. Kasagi, Y. Iwamura, Andrei Lipson, Ivan Chernov and Yu. N. Bazhutov	780
Acknowledgements	789
Author Index	792