Preliminary survey on cold fusion: It’s not pathological science and may require revision of nuclear theory (original) (raw)
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Methodology of the Cold Fusion Research
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On the brief summary of researches on the cold fusion phenomenon (CFP) performed in these twenty years, an appropriate methodology of the research for this curious phenomenon is discussed and the phenomenological approach is recommended for it at present stage of investigation. There have been found several quantitative relations and regularities or laws between observables in this phenomenon; ratios of the number N a of nuclear reactions producing a definite observable a to another N b , the stability effect of nuclear transmutation, the inverse-power law for the frequency-intensity relation of an effect, and bifurcation of effects in temporal progress of events (excess power, neutron emission). As an illustration of the phenomenological approach appropriate for the CFP, a full introduction of a phenomenological model proposed already is given with successful applications and with a trial to verify it from a microscopic point of view. The above mentioned laws are tentatively explained by the model. We could anticipate various application of this phenomenon in the course of and after establishment of the science of the CFP.