Robin,
>In fact, Rossi could (should) have borrowed Dufour's "hydrex" virtual neutron model which goes back twenty years. This might have necessitated slight alteration. See also http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=275 Ha! and befitting the new year . from this entry, which I had not seen, it appears that Dufour has already "thrown out the old and rung in the new" - having relabeled "hydrex" as "hypole" so that the new hypothesis is basically the old one, revised to better fit the Rossi results. Would you agree? Jones