In case the previous suggestion wrt rubidium electrolysis rang a few bells -
going all the way back to 1994 when Bush/Eagleton published 'Evidence for
electrolytically induced transmutation and radioactivity correlated with excess
heat in electrolytic cells with light water rubidium salt electrolytes' and in
which experiment they saw clear evidence of conversion of rubidium to
strontium... which is the exact type of nuclear transmutation which is expected
from the decay of mirror-neutrons into muons, which catalyze the beta decay of
rubidium-87.
BUT like too many of the early breakthroughs - the findings stagnated and were
not taken to the next level of scaleup...
See: 'Evidence for electrolytically induced transmutation and radioactivity
correlated with excess heat in electrolytic cells with light water rubidium
salt electrolytes'
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It is almost a tragedy that significant work like this was not pursued further
in the 1990s
Jones
The $64 question, from the standpoint of explaining LENR in the context of dark
matter - is this: what would be the primary mechanism for excess heat and how
could one optimize for it (or prove the hypothesis) in a simple electrolysis
cell ?
The "mirror neutron," if it is shown to be dark matter (and a few top
scientists believe that it will be), is essentially not reactive with ordinary
matter and does not substitute for a thermal or ultra low momentum neutron, at
least according the handful of theorists who are looking for mirror neutrons.
Yet it does decay in about 800 seconds. This explains so-called "heat after
death" in some cells.
However, mirror matter apparently does not produce photons on decay. The
longest lived decay product would be the muon which are themselves relatively
mobile and nonreactive and can scatter great distances before further decay to
electrons. Thus excess heat is not easy to capture. This could explain why
Holmlid sees muons and why some cells that produce mirror neutrons could work
better than others. In general, a large mass of electrode or structural
material would be more likely to interact with muons before they scatter.
Several of the meltdown reports happened with large mass of palladium, nickel
or titanium, in the case of Snoswell.
But actually, an optimum way to utilize dark matter has been alluded to before
- engineer the decay of the mirror neutron to trigger energetic decay in a
radioactive material which is part of the electrolyte. Rusi Taleyarkhan did
this with sonofusion and a radioactive additive, but he did not realize the
mechanism. Typically a common radioactive target for muons would be 40K
(potassium-40) which is a small (tiny) part of potassium electrolyte in many
cells. There are better choices to use with mirror neutron decay.
Which is to say - there exists an easy way to falsify at least one way that the
"mirror neutron hypothesis" would apply to LENR - if that is, it has been based
solely on nuclear reactivity of the electrolyte.
A standard electrolysis cell using an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide could
be the control for this proposed experiment - and tested for gamma emission
against the identical cell using rubidium hydroxide. The later has a much
higher percentage of radioactive isotope than does KOH, Typically cells using
KOH will barely register gamma radiation but the rubidium isotope 87Rb should
be hundreds of times more active than KOH for muon interaction.
This seems simple to try but it assumes that mirror neutrons are being made so
both cells must have active electrodes to begin with producing mirror neutrons.
Jones
Here is another collaboration page, looking for dark matter in the form of a
"second type of neutron."
https://neutronoscillationgrouputk.wordpress.com/2017/02/05/neutron-mirror-neutron-oscillation/
Instead of the antineutron, they focus on mirror-matter and the mirror-neutron.
If this collaboration did not include the well-respected Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, it is likely that the conclusions would be called Sci-Fi. Since
ORNL has the largest neutron generator in the world, it is expected that rather
soon, experiments will indeed characterize the mirror-neutron or else debunk
the possibility. This is certainly Nobel Prize category research.
Of course, they did not mention LENR here, and why should they? ... so it is a
further stretch for LENR proponents to suggest that hydrogen would be
transformed into a mirror-neutron within a metal lattice. Nevertheless, this is
a provocative and elegant answer to several issues.
As it turns out, the entire category of "antimatter" could be mislabeled to the
extent that it should only apply to charged particles and the ability to have
an unambiguous polarity change. There would be no neutral antimatter and the
species formerly called an antineutron would possibly be a mirror neutron.
A good case (but preliminary)is being made in several physics Labs around
the World, involving the characterization of a dark matter particle which is
both common and related to the neutron, but sterile and slightly lower in mass.
In fact, it appears that about 1% of any neutron beam from any neutron
generator(planned or unplanned) will consist of this particle, which seems to
oscillate back and forth (as with neutrino oscillation). It has been called an
X-particle, but it could actually be antimatter, or the equally exotic "mirror
matter". As an uncharged particle it does not normally annihilate with matter
but when it does, only muons are seen - never gamma photons. It is more like a
mirror image neutron than what we expect of antimatter, but it seems to consist
of antiquarks.
