Reply to "Comment on 'Piezonuclear decay of thorium' [Phys. Lett. A 373 (2009) 1956]" by L. Kowalski

TL;DR

This paper defends previous experimental evidence of anomalous thorium decay against critical comments, emphasizing the importance of rigorous experimentation and encouraging further research to clarify the phenomenon.

Contribution

It provides a detailed response to critiques of cavitation-induced thorium decay experiments, supporting the validity of earlier findings and advocating for more precise future studies.

Findings

Experimental evidence suggests anomalous thorium decay during cavitation.

Critical comments highlight the need for improved experimental rigor.

Authors advocate for further experiments to confirm results.

Abstract

In a paper appearing in this issue of Physics Letters A, Kowalski raises some critical comments on the experiment [F. Cardone, R. Mignani, A. Petrucci, Phys. Lett. A 373 (2009) 1956] that we carried out by cavitating a solution of thorium-228. The experiment highlighted the anomalous decay of thorium, thus confirming the results previously obtained by Urutskoev et al. by explosion of titanium foils in solutions. In this Letter, we reply to these comments. We agree with Kowalski that critical comments are one of the key factors of the process to improve the quality of experiments and the interpretation of results. However we do hope that these comments together with the details provided in the replies will promote further and better experiments which are certainly worth performing in order to shed a brighter light on this issue, as Kowalski himself suggests in his comment.