Axil Axil at a Vortex-l entry--Tuesday, October 28, 2014 11:13 PM -- identified a paper by D.V. FILIPPOV, L.I. URUTSKOEV to be found at http://uf.narod.ru/public/recom_e05.pdf . It was written in 2004.
This work provides an empirical model for transmutation of many isotopes with only low energy transitions involved. The author's discussion and conclusions follow: >>>>"The major conclusion of the paper is that the potentiality of a >>>>hypothetical collective process of low-energy nuclear transformations is >>>>shown to be compatible with the known fundamental conservation laws. This claim is suggested by our successful attempt for a phenomenorogical description of such a process -- first of all, by unumber of successful qualitative predictions verified by the experiment. Specifically, comparison of the results of modeling with experimental data show that the known fundamental conservation laws allow the existence of a hypothetical collective process of low-energy nuclear transformations which rnay manifest itself in the following way. 1. This process may proceed at small input/output energies per participating atom, namely those of the scale of chemical energies. 2. The final ensernbles with values of energy closest to that of the initial ensemble appear to consist of stable isotopes, tf the initital ensemble corr- sists of stable isotopes as well. In other words, the success of the proposed phenomenological model may be considered as an indirect evidence for: (i) probable collective nature of a hypothetical process of nuclear transformation and, (ii) probable importance of weak inreractions in describing the above process (more precisely - the importance of proton-neutron transformations due to the known fundamental interactions, namely, weak interaction, or some unknown ones). Completion of the proposed model, even without specification of the mechanism of transformation, will allow making preliminary estimates of the expected production of elements from the given input elements, and what is even more important, estimating the relevant input elements to produce requested output elements . It looks like now there are no theories capable of describing the phenomenon under consideration. Though the mechanism of transformation of nuclei is not understood yet, it is natural to assume that there is some catalyst which may unite nuclei in a cluster and thus create conditions for a reso- nance, which might initiate an exchange of nucleons. We consider the George Lochak's magnetic monopole to be one of possible candidates for such a catalyst. Magnetic monopole, proposed by Lochak, is a lepton, i.e., partictpates in the electroweak interactions and can be trealed as a magnetically excited state of neutrino. Such a monopole is massless (or nearly massless), very light (from the viewpoint of energy scale) and can be born, for example, in electromagnetic phenomena in condensed matter."<<<< IMHO this paper should be given at least 1/2 hours of study by anyone interested in potential LENR mechanisms. An assessment of the recent Levi etal., paper and Rossi's and Focardi's statements about catalysts and transmutations seem to be forcast by this paper written in 2004. These statements should be evaluated in more detail relative to its predictive model of FILIPPOV and URUTSKOEV. Bob Cook