Title: Exothermic reaction induced by high-density current in metals: possible nuclear origin

Authors: Jacques Dufour, Denis Murat, Xavier Dufour, Jacques Foos

Addresses: Laboratoire des sciences nucleaires, CNAM 2, rue Conte 75141, Cedex 03 Paris, France. ' Laboratoire des sciences nucleaires, CNAM 2, rue Conte 75141, Cedex 03 Paris, France. ' Laboratoire des sciences nucleaires, CNAM 2, rue Conte 75141, Cedex 03 Paris, France. ' Laboratoire des sciences nucleaires, CNAM 2, rue Conte 75141, Cedex 03 Paris, France

Abstract: Since 1989, many experimenters worked on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR). They face both an experimental and a theoretical dilemma: how to design simple and convincing experiments in a complex system and if the phenomenon has a nuclear origin, why do they observe no radiation. A rather simple water mass flow calorimeter was designed to study this phenomenon under different experimental conditions. First results indicate that a high-density current induced an exothermic reaction in a hydrogen processed palladium wire. A working hypothesis is presented to solve the theoretical dilemma. This working hypothesis is based on the possible existence of a still hypothetical proton/electron resonance. We underline that a working hypothesis is not a theory presented to explain the phenomenon; this is just a conceptual scheme to drive the authors to build experiments.

Keywords: low energy nuclear reactions; LENR; palladium-hydrogen; metal-hydrogen; high current density; cold fusion; mass flow calorimeter; exothermic reaction.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNEST.2005.008554

International Journal of Nuclear Energy Science and Technology, 2005 Vol.1 No.4, pp.280 - 290

Published online: 30 Dec 2005 *

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