T. BRESSANI, E. DEL GIUDICE and G. PREPARATA‑ Foreword
XIII
CONTRIBUTED
PAPERS
L. BERTALOT, L. BETTINALI, F. DE MARCO, V. VIOLANTE, P.DE
LOGU, T. DIKONIMOS MAKRIS and A. LA
BARBERA ‑ Analysis of tritium and heat excess
in electrochemical cells with Pd cathodes 3
E.BRILLAS,
G.SARDIN, J. CASADO, X. DOMENECH and J. SANCHEZ ‑Product analysis from D2O
electrolysis with palladium and titanium cathodes ......................9
B.ESCARPIZO,
F. FERNANDEZ, J. SEVILLA, F. CUEVAS and C. SANCHEZ ‑Solid state and
electrochemical phenomena related to cold fusion in titanium ...................15
D.GOZZI,
P.L.CIGNINI, M. TOMELLINI, S. FRULLANI, F. GARIBALDI, F. GHIO, M. JODICE and
O.M. URCIUOLI ‑ Multicell experiments for searching time‑related events in cold
fusion 21
Z. HONGYU, W. CHENLIN, R. YANIN, F. GUOYING, Y. HUA,
Z.WEIDONG, W. DACHUN, H. MING, L. SHUZHEN, H. ZHUEN,W. ZHONGDA, Y. RUNHU, L.
ZHENGHAO and R. GUOXIAO ‑
Some results on
cold fusion research 49
B. Y. LIAW, P.-L.
TAO and B.E. LIEBERT ‑ Recent progress on cold fusion research using molten
salt techniques 55
G.MENGOLI, M. FABRIZIO, C.MANDUCHI, G. ZANNONI, L.
RICCARDI and A. BUFFA ‑ Tritium and neutron emission in conventional and
contact glow discharge electrolyses of D2O at Pd and Ti cathodes
65
H. NUMATA, R. TAKAGI, I. OHNO, K. KAWAMURA and S. HARUYAMA ‑ Neutron emission and surface observation during a long‑term evolution of deuterium on Pd in 0.1 M LiOD 71
FUJII,
M. TAKAHASHI, M. NAKADA, T. KUSUNOKI and M. 0KAMOTO ‑Anomalous neutron burst
in heavy water electrolysis.
81
S. SZPAK, P.A. MOSIER‑BOSS and J. J. SMITH ‑ Reliable procedure for the initiation
of the Fleischmann‑Pons effect .....................87
A. TAKAHASHI, T. IIDA, T. TAKEUCHI, A. MEGA, S. YOSHIDA and M. WATANABE ‑ Neutron spectra and
controllabil ity by
PdD/electrolysis cell with low‑high current pulse operation 93
D. H. BEDDINGFIELD, F.E. CECIL, C.S. GALOVICH, H. LIU and
S. ASHER ‑ Characterization of charged particle bursts from deuterium loaded thin titanium foils . 99
T. BRESSANI, D. CALVO, A. FELICIELLO, C. LAMBERTI, F. IAZZI, B. MINETTI, R. CHERUBINI, A.M.I.
HAQUE and R...... A. RICCI ‑ A
study of the neutron emission from Ti loaded with D in gas. phase by means of a
time‑of flight spectrometer
105
F. CELANI, A. SPALLONE, L. LIBERATORI, F. CROCE, L. STO RELLI, S. FORTUNATI, M. TULUI and N.
SPARVIERI ‑. Search for neutron
emission from deuterided high temperature superconductors in a very low
background environment 113
D. W. MO, Y. S.LIU,
L. Y. ZHOU, S. Y. DONG, K. L. WANG, S. C.
WANG and X. Z. LI ‑ Search for precursor and charged particles in "cold
fusion 123
A. DE NINNO, F.
SCARAMUZZI, A. FRATTOLILLO, S. MIGLIORI, F.
LANZA, S. SCAGLIONE, P. ZEPPA and C. PONTORIERI ‑... The production of neutrons and tritium in the deuterium
gas‑titanium interaction ... 129
Y. DUAN, W. S. GUAN, S.Q. CHENG, J. ZHANG, S. L. HAO, B. GU, J.Q. LI, W.X. LIANG, G. Y. ZHANG, S.X. PEI, J. C. HUANG, K. W. CHEN, R. LIU, X. R. LIU and YING LI‑ Fusion neutron emission induced by injection of deuterium into titanium target in a mirror plasma... 139
JIN, F. ZHANG, D.
YAO and B. WU ‑ Anomalous nuclear effects
in deuterium palladium systems 145
F. LANZA, G.
BERTOLINI, V. VOCINO, E. PARNISARI and C. RONSECCO
‑ Tritium production resulting from deuteration of different metals and
alloys 151
T.TAZIMA, K. ISII and H. IKEGAMI ‑ Time‑correlated
neutron detection from deuterium loaded palladium .......157
L. WANG, X. Z. LI, S. Y. DONG, S. C.. WANG, D. W. MO, C.M. LUO, Q. R. LIN, X. D. WU, W.Z. LI, Y. F.
ZHU, P. L. ZHOU and L. CHANG ‑
Search for better material
for cold fusion
experiment using CR‑39 detector 163
C. WANG, T.S. KANG, K.L. WANG, S. Y. DONG, Y.Y. FENG,D.
W. MO and X. Z. LI ‑ Identification of the energetic charged particles in
gas‑loading experiment of "cold fusion" using CR‑39 plastic track
detector 169
D.SEELIGER,
M. BITTNER, A. MEISTER, R. SCHWIERZ and T. STREIL ‑Evidence of neutron
emission from a titanium deuterium system ..........175
M. BITTNER, A. MEISTER, D. SEELIGER,
R. SCHWIERZ and P. WUSTNER ‑Observation of D‑D fusion neutrons during
degassing of deuterium loaded palladium ..181
M. BALDO - Enhancement of fusionrate induced by the collective
electron excitations ......................187
F.CEROFOLINI, R. DIERCKX,,A. FOGLIO PARA
and G. OTTAVIANI ‑Binuclear atoms as fusion precursors in a hot cloud
...............193
R. CHUBB and T. A. CHUBB ‑ An
explanation of cold fusion and cold fusion by‑products, based on lattice
induced nuclear chemistry .........199.
P. L. HAGELSTEIN ‑Coherent and semi‑coherent neutron transfer reactions
...................................205
F.J. MAYER and J. R. REITZ - Summary of progress in hydron
physics ...205.
J.A.
McNEIL ‑ Relativistic hyperfine interaction and the Spence‑Vary resonance ....217
M. SHAHEEN, M.
RAGHEB, G.H. MILEY, H. HORA and J. KELLY‑ Anomalous deuteron to hydrogen
ratio in Oklo samples and the possibility of deuteron disintegration.... 221
A. SCALIA and P.
FIGUERA ~ 'The cross section factor for the reactions 2 H(d, P) 3 H + 2 H(d,n) 'He at very low temperature 235
T. F. DROEGE and L.
J. DROEGE ‑ An improved zero gradient calorimeter for the investigation of
cold fusion phenomena 243
M.AGNELLO, F. IAZZI, B. MINETTI, E. BOTTA, T. BRESSANI,.
0. BRUNASSO, D. CALVO,. D. DATTOLA, P. GIANOTTI, C. LAMBERTI and A. ZECCHINA ‑ Improvement
of the TOFUS apparatus....249
G. RICCO,
M.ANGHINOLFI, P.CORVISIERO, P. PRATI, M. TAIUTI, C. BORAGNO, R'. EGGENHOFFNER
and U. VALBUSA ‑ A large solid angle multi-parameter neutron detector....
255
K. A. SJ6LAND, P.
KRISTIANSSON and K. G. J. WESTERGARD ‑ Liquid
scintillator detection and multi-parameter data acquisition for neutron
detection in cold fusion experiments 261
L. H. BAGNULO ‑ Crack‑fusion:
a plausible explanation of "cold fusion" 267
F. E. CECIL and G. M. HALE ‑ Measurement of D‑D and D6Li nuclear reactions at very low energies 271
E. KUZMANN, M. GAL,
G.K. SOLYMOS and CS. SZELES – Moessbauer spectroscopic characterization of
samples for cold fusion experiment 277
M. S. MATHUR, H.L. JOHNSTON, A. MIRZAI, J. S. C. McCKEE, G.R. SMITH, J. J. G. DUROCHER, K. FURUTANI, J. K. MAYER, Y. H. YEO, H. HNATIUK, S. KING, A. HEMPEL, K. S.SHARMA and G. WILLIAMS ‑ Recent modifications to the Manitoba deuterium implantation accelerator and a study of the properties of the online neutron monitor detector 283
H. S. UHM and W. M. LEE ‑ High deuterium concentration
in palladium for application to cold fusion 289
INVITED
PAPERS
H. IKEGAMI Cold fusion researches in Japan 297
X. Z. LI Chinese effort in understanding the
"cold
fusion"
phenomena 309
V. A. TSAREV ‑ Cold fusion studies in the USSR 319
J. O'M. BOCKRIS, D. HODKO and Z. MINEWSKI ‑ The
mechanism of deuterium evolution on palladium: relation to heat bursts provoked
by fluxing deuterium across the interface 337
S. PONS and M. FLEISCHMANN ‑ The calorimetry of
electrode reactions and measurements of excess enthalpy generation in the
electrolysis of D2 0 using Pd‑based cathodes 349
M. H. MILES, B. F. BUSH, G. S. OSTROM and J. J. LAGOWSKI‑
Heat and helium production in cold fusion experiments 363
G. WILL, K. CEDZYNSKA, M‑C YANG, J. R. PETERSON, H.E. BERGESON, S. C. BARROWES, W. J. WEST and D. C.LINTON ‑ Studies of electrolytic and gas phase loading of palladium with deuterium 373
H.0. MENLOVE, M. A. PACIOTTI, T. N. CLAYTOR and D. G.
TUGGLE ‑Low‑background measurements of neutron emission from Ti metal in
pressurized deuterium gas... 385
T.N. CLAYTOR, D.G. TUGGLE and H.O. MENLOVE ‑ Tritium
generation and neutron measurements in Pd‑Si under high deuterium gas pressure...395
L. SCHLAPBACH -
Hydrogen and its isotopes in and
on metals 409
M. C. H. McKUBRE,
R. ROCHA‑FILHO, S. I. SMEDLEY, F. L.TANZELLA, S. CROUCH‑BAKER, T. 0. PASSELL
and J. SANTUCCI ‑ Isothermal flow calorimetric investigations
of the D/Pd system 419
F. SCARAMUZZI ‑ Survey of gas loading experiments .... . 445
G. PREPARATA ‑ Cold
fusion: what do the laws of nature allow and forbid? 453
H. GERISCHER ‑ Is
cold fusion a reality? The impressions of a critical observer 465
M. FLEISCHMANN ‑ The
present status of research in cold fusion 475
W. N. HANSEN ‑ Report
to the Utah state Fusion/Energy Council on the analysis of selected Pons Fleischmann
calorimetric data 491