http://phys.org/news/2014-03-unidentified-electron.html
*Hunt for an 'unidentified electron objects'* This article holes promise to reveal some of the detailed quantum mechanical underpinnings of LENR in the NiH reactor. There is a direct connection between ultra-low super-fluidic behavior of atomic based BEC and quasiparticle based BEC that comes about through pumped super cooling. Bose-Einstein condensation of quasi-particles such as excitons, polaritons, and photons is a fascinating quantum mechanical phenomenon. Unlike the Bose-Einstein condensation of real particles (like atoms), these processes do not require low temperatures, since the high densities of low-energy quasi-particles needed for the condensate to form can be produced via external pumping that keep the quasiparticle excited. Such pumping can create remarkably high effective temperatures in a narrow spectral region of the lowest energy states in a quasiparticle gas, resulting in strikingly unexpected transitional dynamics of Bose-Einstein quasiparticle condensates. The density of the quasiparticle condensate increases immediately after the external pumping is switched off and initially decreases if it is switched on again. In the Rossi reactor, such pumping is produced by the "Mouse" as it feeds the "Cat" with both polaritons and nano-particles. When the Mouse is switched off, and the pumping is stopped, the population of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) increases dramatically in the Cat. This behavior finds explanation in a nonlinear 'evaporative super cooling' mechanism that couples the low-energy polariton overheated by pumping with all the other thermal polaritons, removing the excess heat, and allowing for Bose-Einstein polariton condensate formation. Drawing a parallel between atomic condensation and quasiparticle condensation, it is likely that the motions in both flavors of superfluids - low temperature fluids and the quasiparticle superfluid both exhibit the same classical as well as quantum behavior. The quantum nature of superfluids manifests itself in the form of quantized vortices, tiny twisters of electrons and photons, with the core sizes of the order of an Angstrom (0.1nm - approximately the diameter of an atom) that move through fluid severing and coalescing, forming bundles and tangles. To make these processes even more intricate and distinct from motions in usual classical fluids, these tiny twisters live on a background consisting of a mixture of viscous and inviscid fluid components that constitute the superfluid. The electrons and photons immersed in this polariton superfluid are useful experimental probes. As they move through superfluid they form soft bubbles of about 2 nm in diameter that get trapped by quantized vortices quite similar to how houses and cars become trapped and transported by a tornado. As pressure decreases below the criticality level, the bubble expands and explodes, reaching micron sizes, with the bubble trapped by a vortex exploding at a pressure larger than that for the free bubble. Another class of object that existed at very intense super cooling explodes at even larger pressures. They termed these "unidentified electron objects". In research of this quantum behavior, experimenters discovered a novel mechanism of vortex multiplication: the vortex core expands and then contracts, forming a dense array of new vortex rings during the contraction stage. The conjecture is that it becomes quite likely that the electron bubble becomes trapped by more than one vortex line, furthermore reducing the pressure change needed for consequent explosions. They have also shown that the mechanism of vortex multiplication is suppressed at lower super cooling; explaining why such vortex objects were to be expected experimentally only when pumping by the mouse is first suspended. Could this behavior rooted in super fluidity explain the exploding magnetic vortexes reported by DGT in their ICCF-18 paper?
