These are really just bookmarks to myself of papers that are worth reading properly. I restricted myself to about 2005+ ... mainly to weed out "first impressions".
I've tagged most of them with a date and a few keywords (for myself). I've also included a few non-theory papers that caught my eye.
The VERY short answer is that there are PLENTY of ways for LENR to "defy laws of physics" and the "Coulomb Barrier" in particular.
Almost all of them are concerned with D/Pd, not Hydrogen/Nickel .. but most say their theory could be used for Rossi.
Kim's BEC preprint is first out of the gate with a Rossi-specific comment.
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Widom-Larsen http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cond-mat/pdf/0505/0505026v1.pdf 2005 weak force p+e -> neutrino+n -> n + lenr
This one isn't in the library downloads. None of the other papers pick up on WL -- but I think it has some merit -- in concept, rather than details of how to make "heavy electrons".
I suspect that arguments against "coulomb barrier" also apply here. And see Lochons, below.
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The main themes I noticed are :
SUPERPOSITION : there is no CB, because wave functions overlap, and nuclei are superimposed. This includes Bose Einstein Condensates (BEC)
COULOMB LOWERED : electron screening PLUS positive charge screening means that CB is lowered.
COULOMB NARROWED : even if CB remains high, it is narrowed, so tunneling is effective.
RESONANCE : a lot of these paper consider resonance, plasmons, phonons .... so WL isn''t alone.
HYDRINO/HYDREX : De/hydrogen atom is shrunk -- For Hydrex it's just another H-state.
LOCHONS : two electrons form a composite boson.
This could work with WL equation 3 -- the 2.4 "mass requirement" could be reduced to a 1.2 if we have a p+LOCHON penetration.
SIMULATIONS : some of these papers take a theory and simulate the results.
ODDBALL : ZPE, Casimir ...
RELATED : Nuclear Physics ain't done yet .. see paper on Lattice model of nucleus. See Cook.
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Future work : I need to pick out a few papers as representative of these -- "essential reading" before you declare it to be "impossible".
If anyone want to ... reply, with the best papers.
Disclaimer : this isn't my field.
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Brown : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BrownJenhancedlo.pdf resonant tunnelling , coulomb narrowing, simulations
Chubb :
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ChubbTAiblochions.pdf 2004 D2 = Bloch Ions => superposed, not coulomb-separated
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ChubbTAiiinhibite.pdf
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ChubbTAiiiblochnu.pdf
Also ties in with Kim / BEC
III : Maxwell' demon
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ChubbTAovercoming.pdf 2008 : superposed waves, Feschbak resonance, no Coulomb barrier, cf BEC
Cook : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CookNthefccstru.pdf Lattice Nuclear Structure vs Water-drop, Shell models
Czerski : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CzerskiKthehdphrea.pdf electron, +positive cohesive screening, coulomb, reaction rates
Dardik : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/DardikIprogressin.pdf COP=6 for 24 hrs
Dufour : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/DufourJexperiment.pdf Hydrex/shrunken hydrogen
Duncan : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/DuncanRanoutsider.pdf review -- cf recent proposal for national action
Engvild : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/EngvildKCtripledeut.pdf 2003 : Triple-Deuterium
Evans : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/EvansABspacedirac.pdf 4-space-dirac
Fisher : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/FisherJCoutlineofp.pdf polyneutrons
Fleischman : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmanbackground.pdf & Theories 2003
Fou : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/FouCinvestigat.pdf neutron-deuterium
Frisone : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/FrisoneFthecoulomb.pdf Coulomb barrier not static
Hagelstein http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Hagelsteinunifiedpho.pdf phonon-coupled 2008
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Hagelsteininputtothe.pdf
Hora/Miley : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/HoraHlowenergyna.pdf 2004 hydrinos
Jiang : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/JiangXanomalousn.pdf 2006 ZPE
Kasagi http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KasagiJcountryhis.pdf 2009 Japan review
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KasagiJscreeningp.pdf (screening)
Kim YE http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KimYEreactionbaa.pdf coulomb
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KimYEexperiment.pdf BEC
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KimYEboseeinste.pdf 2009
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KimYEgeneralize.pdf 2011 Rossi
Kirkinskski http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Kirkinskiicalculatioa.pdf 2005 rates
Li X : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LiXZmultiplesc.pdf 2004 coherence, resonance
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LiXZpredictabi.pdf 2008 3-parameter resonant tunneling : lenr w/o neutron,gamma
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LiXZwavenature.pdf 2009 wave nature
Luo, Miley .. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LuoNenhancemen.pdf 2003 screening, coulomb
Muelenberg/Sinha http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Meulenbergtunnelingb.pdf 2009 coulomb, lochons
Miley http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MileyGHcondensedm.pdf 2008 clusters nickel-foam pics
Miley http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MileyGHclusterswi.pdf 2009, clusters, rydberg, casimir
Miura http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MiuraHstudyonfor.pdf 2005, D hopping off alkali/a-earth
Moagar-Poladian http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MoagarPolaapossiblem.pdf 2009 energy states, negative effective mass, BEC too restrictive
Nagel http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NagelDJthecasefor.pdf 2009 -- surface fraction, energy calculations
Pemberton http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/PembertonSquantummec.pdf 2009 : QM in lattice, resonance, d-thru-d transmission time-dep schr eqn
Sinha, http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SinhaKPamodelfore.pdf 1999 lochons (local charged bosons)
Sinha : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SinhaKPamodelfore.pdf 2008 D-D resonance, phonons, lochons, shielding, coulomb
lochon = paired electron as composite boson
Srinivasan http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Srinivasanhotspotsch.pdf 2009 hot-spots, chains , bursts, micronuclear explosions (per storms)
Takahashi, http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/TakahashiAatheoretic.pdf 2005 summary
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/TakahashiAdynamicmec.pdf 2008 QM, electron cloud, debroglie w/l
Tanaka http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/TanakaTapossiblee.pdf 2002 currents, attraction, screening
Toimela http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ToimelaTmultiplere.pdf 2007 resonance, scattering
Tsuchiya, http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/TsuchiyaKquantumsta.pdf 2003 BEC 2-body
Yamaguchi : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/YamaguchiEcoldfusion.pdf 1990 : Neutron burst, deformation, excess heat
