Besides electrons, the production of kaons whose substantial energy content would be available to produce gamma radiation in the MeV range is a candidate for the radiation profile observed..
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> wrote: > For many years, I have been saying that excess heat is a poor test for > LENR - a poor and insensitive indicator of LENR. What has been seen in > this experiment (GS5.2), is a clear indication of LENR via a radiation > signature. This was a high signal-to-noise spectrum and getting such a > spectrum from a LENR process is exceedingly rare and of unique value to > LENR science. > > The spectrum has every indication of being Bremsstrahlung ("braking") > radiation that occurs when a light particle is stopped very quicky by a > heavy atom. The lighter the light particle and the heavier the heavy atom, > the greater the Bremsstrahlung amplitude. The lightest particle would be > the electron, and the heavy atoms could be Ni, Fe, Cr, Mo from the fuel and > the SS capsule containing the fuel. BUT, the Bremsstrahlung spectrum has a > sharp cutoff at the initial energy of the electron. The fact that this > spectrum shows energy out to beyond 1MeV means that you must have MeV+ > electron energies inside! This is a big deal. What LENR theories > presently can account for MeV electrons? Actually, there appears to be > energy out to over 1.4 MeV in the Bremsstrahlung. MeV protons will not > create this spectrum (too heavy and low speed). > > MeV+ energies for single entities (as are indicated here) are really only > available from a nuclear process. There is no stretch of Mills or DDL > theories (supra-chemical) that can account for >509keV photons/particles. > There is presently no description in a hydroton theory for MeV+ electron > emission. It could fit in with Piantelli's theory with modification. It > could fit in with Hagelstein's and Karabut's photon energy multiplication > (but it would be extreme). > > There are some skeptics that still believe that Ni-H LENR may not exist - > even if they believe in Pd-D LENR. This is unmistakable proof that Ni-H > LENR is happening. > > Is this the holy grail experiment, ready to put in your hot water heater? > No. But, with further corroboration and analysis, this will provide a > sensitive means to indicate the onset of LENR in a class of Ni-H > experiments and will become an important probe into the science behind the > curtain. It will lead to replication and then to engineering. > > Bob Higgins > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > >> Well - OK... there is a tiny signal - but let's look at the counts per >> minute or per second. >> >> We are talking about 20 per second or so instead of a background of 4 or >> so. This is really "banana level" (bananas are slightly radioactive). >> >> You would need to see trillions of times this level if there was 5 hours >> of SSM - being produced by nuclear fusion. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: H LV >> >> from >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OAcb975m_AXMFz25zcl07kllERqVjSbZsWv_P1A3xQc/edit?pref=2&pli=1 >> Bob Higgins writes: >> "There was a significant gamma outburst measured in GS5.2 whose broadband >> high energy spectrum is not only unexplainable by known chemistry and >> physics, but may also not be explainable by many of the present theories >> for LENR!" >> >> He also says the the spectrum on figure 6 probably continues to rise on >> the left side but it drops off due to the detector's sensitivity limit. >> >> Harry >> >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Roarty, Francis X < >> francis.x.roa...@lmco.com> wrote: >> > Yes a little underwhelming but if they truly have a hands down recipe >> > to repeatable anomalous heat it will probably get a number of industry >> > labs and their funding off the fence wrt LENR. Now researchers can >> > prove to their management this is real. >> > >> > Fran >> > >> > From: Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] >> > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:44 AM >> > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com >> > Subject: EXTERNAL: [Vo]:Big surprise or big dud ? >> > >> > >> > >> > Where is the big surprise? >> > >> > I woke this morning with anticipation - expecting to see proof from >> > MFMP of a 5 hour self-sustained reaction. Instead, we get graphs of >> > modest gain at the noise level and radiation counts peaking in the few >> > hundred per second – when we need to seeing a million times more - if >> > the radiation does indeed relate to excess heat at kilowatt level. >> > Yawn. Let’s hope there is much more forthcoming than this. >> > >> > What am I missing? >> >> >