PRODUCTION OF EXCESS HEAT, IMPURITY ELEMENTS AND UNNATURAL ISOTOPIC RATIOS IN HIGH-CURRENT GLOW DISCHARGE EXPERIMENTS

摘要

Results recorded for excess heat measurements in experiments with a high-current glow discharge in D_2, Xe and Kr, using previously deuterated Pd and Ti cathode samples, are presented. Excess power up to 10-15 W (and efficiency up to 150%) was recorded for the experiments with a Pd cathode samples in a D_2 discharge. Excess power up to 5 W (and efficiency up to 150%) was recorded for previously deuterated Pd cathode samples in Xe and Kr discharges. Excess heat was not observed in similar experiments using pure Pd cathode samples in Xe and Kr discharges. The production of impurity nuclides (~7Li, ~(13)C, ~(15)N, ~(20)Ne, ~(29)Si, ~(44)Ca, ~(48)Ca, ~(56)Fe, ~(57)Fe, ~(59)Co, ~(64)Zn, ~(66)Zn, ~(75)As, ~(107)Ag, ~(109)Ag, ~(110)Cg, ~(111)Cg, ~(112)Cg, ~(114)Cg, and ~(115)In) at a rate of up to 10~(13) atoms/s was recorded. Soft x-ray radiation from the solid-state cathode (with an intensity up to 0.01 Gy/s) was recorded for discharge experiments carried out in H_2, D_2, Ar, Xe, Kr. X-ray radiation was observed as bursts (up to 10~6 photons in a burst and up to 10~5 bursts a second) during the discharge and within 100 ms after turning off the discharge current. The x-ray radiation data showed that excited energy levels having the lifetime up to 100 ms, and more, and an energy of 1.2-1.8 keV, exist in the solid medium. Possible mechanisms for producing the excess heat, and products of nuclear transmutation reactions, in the solid medium with such excited energy levels is considered.