Experimental and phenomenological comparison between Piezonuclear reactions and Condensed Matter Nuclear Science phenomenology

TL;DR

This paper compares recent piezonuclear reaction experiments with decades of LENR research, highlighting common phenomenological features, theoretical concepts, and potential mechanisms involving energy thresholds and release timing.

Contribution

It provides a side-by-side comparison of piezonuclear and LENR experimental results and proposes a theoretical framework involving energy thresholds and timing for nuclear effects.

Findings

Piezonuclear reactions are compatible with LENR results.

An energy threshold is necessary to trigger nuclear effects.

Timing of energy release is crucial for observed phenomena.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to place side by side the experimental results of Piezonu- clear reactions, which have been recently unveiled, and those collected during the last twenty years of experiments on low energy nuclear reactions (LENR). We will briefy re- port the results of our campaign of piezonuclear reactions experiments where ultrasounds and cavitation were applied to solutions of stable elements. These outcomes will be shown to be compatible with the results and evidences obtained from low energy nuclear reac- tion experiments. Some theoretical concepts and ideas, on which our experiments are grounded, will be sketched and it will be shown that, in order to trigger our measured effects, it exists an energy threshold, that has to be overcome, and a maximum inter- val of time for this energy to be released to the nuclear system. Eventually, a research hypothesis will be put forward about the chance to raise the level of analogy from the mere comparison of results up to the phenomenological level. Here, among the various evidences collected in LENR experiments, we will search for hints about the overcome of the energy threshold and about the mechanism that releases the loaded energy in a suitable interval of time.