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Ultra-dense Hydrogen and Low Energy Nuclear Reactions

Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 8:00 am, Room 211B

For over the last 25 years the science of cold fusion/LENR has been researched around the world with slow pace of progress. Modest quantity of excess heat and signatures of nuclear transmutation and helium production have been confirmed in experiments and theoretical work has resulted in a flora of possible theoretical scenarios. [1-2]

Here we present energy production in several stages of surface processes that result first in the formation of Rydberg matter of Hydrogen [3] that can later condense in a new ultra-dense Hydrogen phase with 2.3 pm short bond distances. This phase is nuclear active showing break-even fusion reaction [7] under 100mW laser pulsing and slow spontaneous fusion occurring without laser pulsing[4,5,6]. The experimental work in around 30 publications is briefly reviewed and latest experimental results presented and discussed.

In that work high-energy particles are detected from the spontaneous processes using scintillation and other similar detectors. Both spontaneous line-spectra and a spontaneous broad energy distribution similar to a beta-decay distribution are observed indicating detection of particles such as muons. The broad distribution is concluded to be due to nuclear particles, giving straight-line Kurie-like plots. They are observed even at a distance of 3 m in air and have a total rate of 10⁷-10¹⁰ s^-1. In the talk the link of these observation to Low energy nuclear reactions (LENR) or so called cold fusion will be discussed experimentally and theoretically.

1. The science of low energy nuclear reaction.

Storms E. World Scientific Publishing Company; 2007.

2. The explanation of low energy nuclear reaction.

Storms E. Ienergy Press; 2014.

3. Review paper: Experimental Studies and Observations of Clusters of Rydberg Matter and Its Extreme Forms Leif Holmlid. J Clust Sci (2012) 23:5–34

4. Spontaneous ejection of high-energy particles from ultra-dense deuterium D(0)

Leif Holmlid and Sveinn Ólafsson

Volume 40, Issue 33, 7 September 2015, Pages 10559–10567)

5. Charged particle energy spectra from laser-induced processes: nuclear fusion in ultra-dense deuterium D(0) Leif Holmlid and Sveinn Ólafsson submitted 2015.

6. Muon detection studied by pulse-height energy analysis: Novel converter arrangements

Leif Holmlid and Sveinn Ólafsson. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 86, 083306 (2015);

7. Heat generation above break-even from laser-induced fusion in ultra-dense deuterium

Leif Holmlid. AIP Advances 5, 087129 (2015);