From: albedo5
I would SO love to get a spectrum to analyse - along with detector details, of course. I really think that would tell a better story. One thing which might be helpful for future analysis, or in any experiment to confirm Rossi, even without his assistance - is to compile a short list of commonly available medical tracers or other candidate isotopes which "could have been used." Criteria: must have decent half life, must be commercially available, must show up through thin lead shielding. Here are a few (with signatures): 1) Californium 252 (used by Rusi) 6.22 MeV 2) Americium 242 (used in smoke detectors etc) 5.6 MeV 3) Radium 226 (watch dials) 4.8 MeV Americium is a prime candidate so far. It is essentially cheap if you go to garage sales where smoke detectors can be found for a buck each. Now I see a bunch of (probably expensive) candidates on Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiopharmaceutical I think the enhanced probability - which would be triggered by seeding with micrograms of Americium would be applicable to Fran's posting just now on QED, but it may also apply to other M.O.. Jones
