Further Measurements on Electrolytic Cold Fusion with D2O and Palladium at Gran Sasso Laboratory

Abstract

This paper reports on several experiments performed at the Gran Sasso Laboratory on an 0.8-cm-diam {times} 5-cm-long, hyperpure, high-temperature vacuum-annealed palladium rod used as a cathode for electrolytic infusion of D{sub 2}O and 0.1 M LiOH with regular additions of gaseous CO{sub 2} at a current density of 60 mA/cm{sup 2}. In the very low background radiation environment, several gamma bursts lasting up to 15 min were detected whose intensity, in terms of cold fusion, was {gt}10{sup {minus} 20} fusion/(deuteron pair {center dot} s). Under normal background conditions, none of these burst signals would have been detected with statistical significance. The shape and intensity of these signals are quite similar to those detected previously.