Correlated neutron and acoustic emission from a deuteriumsaturated palladium target
Golubnichii P.I., Kuz'minov V.V., Merzon G.I., Pritychenko B.V., Filonenko A.D., Tsarev V.A., Tsarik A.A.
In experiments carried out in a low-background underground laboratory, 42 events of neutron and acoustic emission correlated within 100 //s were observed as a palladium sample became saturated with deuterium. The number of random events expected was six. These results correspond to the predictions of the acceleration model of cold fusion, according to which neutrons are produced in the collision of deuterons accelerated in microfissures formed during the cracking of a deuterium-saturated palladium sample.