Remarks on "Piezonuclear neutrons from fracturing of inert solids"

TL;DR

This paper critically examines claims of neutron emissions during granite fracture, revealing significant inconsistencies and statistical issues in the original measurements, thus questioning the validity of the reported results.

Contribution

It provides a critical analysis highlighting methodological flaws and statistical inconsistencies in previous neutron emission experiments during material fracturing.

Findings

Identified fractional neutron counts inconsistent with standard measurements.

Detected non-Poissonian statistical patterns in the data.

Highlighted procedural inconsistencies in the original experiments.

Abstract

In two series of measurements, Cardone, Carpinteri et al. report an excess of neutrons over the background flux corresponding to the catastrophic fracture of a granite block subject to compression. Here we show that these measurements contain large inconsistencies with respect to the stated experimental procedure, including fractional neutron counts and strongly non Poissonian statistics