CFRL English News No. 64 (2006. 3. 10)
Cold Fusion Research Laboratory (
E-mail address; cf-lab.kozima@nifty.com
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(Back numbers of this News are posted on the above Website)
CFP (Cold Fusion Phenomenon) stands for “nuclear reactions and accompanying events occurring in solids with high densities of hydrogen isotopes (H and/or D) in ambient radiation.”
This is the CFRL News (in English) No. 64 for Cold Fusion
researchers published by Dr. H. Kozima, now at the Cold Fusion Research
Laboratory,
This issue contains following items:
1. Proc. ICCF10 was published.
2. Proc. ICCF11 was published.
3. A new neutron source in solids was proposed by Widom and Larsen.
1.
Proc. ICCF10 was published.
The Proceedings of ICCF10 held on August 2003 at
Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, Proc. ICCF10, ed. P.
Hagelstein and S. Chubb, World Scientific,
The contents of this Proceedings
is posted at the page of CFRL News No. 64. The Foreword by P. Hagelstein is posted
at the page ICCF10 of CFRL Website;
http://www.geocities.jp/hjrfq930/Cfcom/Histry/ICCF/iccf10his.htm
2. Proc. ICCF11 was published.
The Proceedings of ICCF11 held on October – November 2004 at
Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, Proc. ICCF11, ed. J.-P.
Biberian, World Scientific,
The contents of this Proceedings
is posted at the page of CFRL News No. 64. The Foreword by
J.-P. Biberian is posted at the page ICCF11 of CFRL Website;
http://www.geocities.jp/hjrfq930/Cfcom/Histry/ICCF/iccf11his.htm
3. A new neutron source in solids was proposed by Widom and
Larsen.
There are many ideas to explain the
mechanism of the cold fusion phenomenon (CFP), a phenomenon belonging to
In the case of Kozima’s
TNCF model (Trapped Neutron Catalyzed Fusion model), the neutrons are assumed
to be the thermal background neutrons trapped in solids and also neutrons bred
by nuclear reactions between the trapped neutrons and nuclei in the solids.
A new mechanism is proposed by Widom and
Larsen in the paper cited below. This theory assumes the inverse reaction of
neutron disintegration to a proton, an electron and an anti-neutrino in solids.
It is good news to have a new mechanism to supply neutrons to catalyze nuclear
reactions responsible for the CFP if this mechanism supplies enough neutrons to
explain the cold fusion phenomenon.
A. Widom and L. Larsen,
“Ultra Low Momentum Neutron Catalyzed Nuclear Reactions on Metallic Hydride
Surfaces” European Physics Journal C, DOI 10.1140 /epjc
/s2006
-02479-8.
Summary
Ultra low
momentum neutron catalyzed nuclear reactions in metallic hydride system
surfaces are discussed. Weak interaction catalysis initially occurs when
neutrons (along with neutrinos) are produced from the protons which capture
"heavy" electrons. Surface electron masses are shifted upwards by
localized condensed matter electromagnetic fields. Condensed matter quantum
electrodynamic processes may also shift the densities of final states allowing
an appreciable production of extremely low momentum neutrons which are thereby
efficiently absorbed by nearby nuclei. No Coulomb barriers exist for the weak
interaction neutron production or other resulting catalytic processes.
It is noticed that
there is no reference to any paper in which neutrons are used to explain
nuclear reactions in CFP. In our research history of 16 years in the field of
CFP, we have accumulated a vast amount of experimental data sets and theoretical
approaches which should not be forgotten. It is desirable that the authors of
the above paper consider the theories of Fisher and Kozima with their relevant
explanations of events in CFP even if their ideas of neutron
production in solids is different.