A very interesting paper, particularly as you say the X ray emmission.
This does mirror the X-ray emission reported by Vladimir Vysotskii in
his 'Cavitation/undamped thermal radiation' results which he presented
at the recent water conference in Frankfurt that I was at. There were a
number of us there who feel that the undamped thermal radiation is much
more likely to be a variety of strange radiation.
As I have mentioned before here (I think) it also looks to be linked to
the gamma radiation plots at "UPDATE#1-The signal..." of
http://www.quantumheat.org/index.php/en/home/mfmp-blog/519-the-cookbook-is-in-the-signal
My hunch is that the low frequency cutoff may be partly linked to the
sensitivity of the detector, but may also link to the dimensions of the
atoms involved, with the radiation being associated with a resonant
interaction between the nucleus and the electrons of the atoms of the
material that generates the X-rays.
Nigel
On 08/11/2019 21:01, Jones Beene wrote:
Worth mentioning in the "mystery radiation" inquiry, is this old data
which presents a possible connection of LENR to dark matter by way of
the purported characteristic soft x-ray emission at 3.6 keV. The
citation below is a high quality 25 year old paper from Mitsubishi
written by Iwamura, presented at ICCF '96.
It can be found at the LENR-CANR library but has been largely
overlooked, since it came out many years before the astrophysics of
dark matter - which now purportedly link to a soft x-ray peak, found
in hundreds of galaxies.
At this time (early 1990s) Iwamura had no clue what they had found,
and never got back to the same line of research despite mentioning
that it was of high importance. The paper in question is: Iwamura, Y.,
et al. "Correlation between behavior of deuterium in palladium and
occurrence of nuclear reactions"... Sixth International Conference on
Cold Fusion,1996.
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/IwamuraYcorrelatio.pdf
The relevant data is easy to miss (I hope that I have not
misinterpreted it). Please have a look at the second graph (Fig 4) on
page 6 - the lower one which correlates the energy of the mystery
radiation to the count rate over about one week of run time.
As you can see, the low end of the energy scale is exponentially
higher in counts, and the range seems to be highest at the detector
threshold, so with more modern detection, one can imagine that it
could even have been higher (due to the steepness of the line at
cutoff). For instance,there appears to be about 1000 counts at 50 keV
but 100,000 counts at the low end, which is arguably around the dark
matter signature at 3.6 keV.
In short, the range which has the highest count rate is consistent
with dark energy photons but the authors did not recognize that, of
course, and made no mention of what it could be except to note its
importance. So essentially this partial finding which now looks
important in retrospect, was not pursued.
Fortunately, the data is here and stands on its own... at least in the
imagination of LENR optimists.
Jones
(having survived recent California wild fires and electrical power
disruption...)
