On further consideration of this topic (hydrogen-like ions) it may not be relevant to Rossi. At least there is no obvious cross-connection (for a non-German speaker).
But the idea of a plasmonic interfacial layer - where hydrogen meets plasmons/polaritons does hold up under closer scrutiny, at least so far. The biggest problem with it is the Penon report, which did not use SiC per se, but it would have been in the refractory coating of the SS tubes. As Fred Sparber was fond of saying, it is a big mistake, when traversing the cutting edge … to fall in love with your own hypothesis, especially when the evidence starts looking the other way… it then becomes the bloody edge. BTW – there is little doubt that Rossi and Focardi had been familiar with this paper http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ViolanteVanalysisof.pdf The missing tile is the puzzle is the one that tells us how Ni-62 optimizes the plasmon/polariton activity. From: MarkI-ZeroPoint Interesting find MarkJ, Mr. Cub seems to have chosen Ni-62 for one of the elements in his work… A search on arXiv.org only has one PDF with J.Cub as a contributing author: http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0010005 “Potential and limitations of nucleon transfer experiments with radioactive beams at REX-ISOLDE” However, a search on Google scholar for author:"J.Cub" turns up 80 papers… the guy is really into nuclear and hi-E physics. I did see one paper on H-like ions… -Mark Iverson From: MarkI-ZeroPoint [mailto:zeropo...@charter.net] Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 2:10 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Re: Hydrogen-like ions Mark J: Thanks for the links, I’m sure Jones will look them up… NOTE that it was Jones Beene who started the thread, “Hydrogen-like ions”… Credit where credit is due… -Mark Iverson From: Mark Jurich [mailto:jur...@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 1:50 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Re: Hydrogen-like ions MarkI-ZeroPoint wrote: Here is the next paper-chase suggestion: “Hydrogen-like ions” “Experiments with the hydrogen-like ions Ne-20, S-32, Ar-40, Fe-54 and Ni-62” was a paper that came up in following the cyberspace trail out of Brasimone to destinations unknown… FYI (to those interested in further reading): Here is the scanned PDF of J. Cub's Thesis/Dissertation (95 pages in German), via the KEK Server: http://ccdb5fs.kek.jp/cgi-bin/img/allpdf?200038503 (Transiente Magnetfelder wasserstoffaehnlicher Ionen im Bereich 10 <= ZIon <= 28) , and a link to the abstract and possibly the English Version (behind a pay wall, which matches that quote): http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE94747631 (Transient magnetic fields of H-like ions in the range 10 <= ZIon <= 28) Cheers, Mark Jurich
