The Problem of finding slight excess mass

[Jones Beene]

Is the "bump" on the chart of slide 6 of this PPT document evidence for Helectronium, instead of residual D2 ?   http://www.frascati.enea.it/nhe/link%20spettrometria.ppt   No, it is not.   Let me say that up front, so as not to be misunderstood.  This slide could be analogized to a "false positive." But it is exactly the kind of chart which I was looking for, so it created quite a flash of hope - followed by disappointment, following a deeper evaluation. IOW while being exactly the type of evidence which I was seeking, the horizontal scale is off by a factor of about 10 compared to that which is needed. Even more disturbing is the fact that the instrument used here, which is state of the art, and in a system with perhaps a 7 figure price tag, simply does not have enough resolution to find what we are hoping to find: that being the heavy electron: electronium - and particularly finding it unequivocally in a mass-spec, where it will likely be bound to helium in the form of what we are calling "helectronium." So it may take a few years for enough precision in the instrumentation to come along in order to find this.   The larger question <G> being, can vortex stand that much extra bandwidth until this thing is finally discovered ?   BTW this is a "PPT"  or "PowerPoint" file. Microsoft power point is a part of "Office" so if you don't have MS Office it will hard to view, as the "google cache" doesn't show anything. Anyway the slide presentation describes the very complex and accurate mass spectrometer system put together by ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, a divisions of the famous Frascati national Lab. http://www.enea.it/com/ingl/default.htm The mass spectrometer system was designed to find and document 4-He coming off of cold fusion experiments, and to distinguish that from deuterium, both of which have a mass near 4 amu. The problem is that D2 and 4-He have very similar masses, the difference being only 6 parts per thousand.  Even after carefully scrubbing and gettering the CF cell output gas ahead of this instrument, so as to eliminate most of D2, there will be some residual. Consequently, in the slide there is a "bump" which is supposedly the remnants of D2 that couldn't be scrubbed. The expected mass difference of a single-substituted helectronium would be 5 parts per ten thousand. You can see by mental substitution under the He curve, that in the graph in question, this difference could not be seen at this resolution even if it were present.   Does anyone know of a higher resolution setup?   Jones