Experimental data from low energy nuclear reactions (LERN) in condensed media are presented. The nuclear reactions products were found in solid cathode media used in glow discharge. Apparently, the nuclear reactions were initiated when bombarding the cathode surface by plasma ions with the energy of 1.0-2.0 keV. Excess heat from a high current glow discharge reaction in D 2 , Xe and Kr using cathodes already charged with preliminary deuterium-charged Pd and Ti cathode samples are given. atoms/s was recorded. The isotopic ratios of these new nuclides was quite different from the natural ratios. Soft X-ray radiation from the solid-state cathode with the intensity up to 0.01Gy/s was recorded in experiments with discharges in H 2 , D 2 , Ar, Xe and Kr. The X-ray radiation was observed in bursts of up to 10 6 photons, with up to 10 5 bursts per second while the discharge was formed and within 100 ms after turning off the discharge current. The results of the X-ray radiation registration showed that the exited energy levels have a lifetime up to 100 ms or more, and the energy of 1.2 -2.5 keV. A possible mechanism for producing excess heat and nuclear transmutation reactions in the solid medium with the exited energy levels is considered. IntroductionWe have conducted experimental research on low energy nuclear reactions (LENR). By LENR we mean nuclear reactions initiated by a low energy action (from units up to a thousand of eV) in condensed media. Under such a low energy action the non-equilibrium energy states with a temperature up to 3keV and lifetimes up to tens of milliseconds can be formed in the condensed medium. Occurrence of such states was found during the experiments when registering X-rays with energy up to 3keV. Hypothetically, X-ray emission and other accompanying effects indicate a fundamentally new physical phenomenon unknown before: metastable long-living (up to tens of ms) states with the excitation energy of 1 -2 keV and more are formed in the crystal solid lattice within the solid when bombarding its surface by plasma ions of an electrical discharge . Therefore, L, M excited energy states with the occupation density n v-d (cm

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New results for glow discharge in deuterium calorimetry are presented. In separate experiments a heat output five times exceeding the input electric power was observed. The result for the charged particle spectrum measurement is presented. Charged particles with energies up to 18 MeV and an average energy of 2-4 MeV were seen. Beams of gamma-rays with energies of about 200 keV and a characteristic X-ray radiation were registered. The summed energy of the registered products is three orders short of the values needed to explain the calorimetric results.

X-ray emissions ranging 1.2 -3.0 keV with dose rate up to 1.0 Gy/s have been registered in experiments with high-current Glow Discharge. The emissions energy and intensity depend on the cathode material; the kind of plasma-forming gas; and the discharge parameters. The experiments were carried out on the high-current glow discharge device using D 2 , H 2 , Kr and Xe at pressure up to 10 Torr, as well as cathode samples made from Al, Sc, Ti, Ni, Nb, Zr, Mo, Pd, Ta, W, Pt, at current up to 500 mA and discharge voltage of 500-2500 V. Two emission modes were revealed under the experiments: 1. Diffusion X-rays was observed as separate X-ray bursts (up to 5×10 5 bursts a second and up to 10 6 X-ray quanta in a burst); 2. X-rays in the form of laser microbeams (up to 10 4 beams a second and up to 10 10 X-ray of quanta in a beam, angular divergence was up to 10 -4 , the duration of the separate laser beams must be τ =3·10 -13 -3·10 -14 s, the separate beam power must be 10 7 -10 8 W). The emission of the X-ray laser beams occurred when the discharge occurred and within 100 ms after turning off the current. The results of experimental research into the characteristics of secondary penetrating radiation occurring when interacting primary X-ray beams from a solid-state cathode medium with targets made of various materials are reported. It was shown that the secondary radiation consisted of fast electrons. Secondary radiation of two types was observed: 1. The emission with a continuous temporal spectrum in the form of separate bursts with intensity up to 10 6 fast electrons a burst. 2. The emission with a discrete temporal spectrum and emission rate up to 10 10 fast electrons a burst. A third type of the penetrating radiation was observed as well. This type was recorded directly by the photomultiplier placed behind of the target without the scintillator. The abnormal high penetrating ability of this radiation type requires additional research to explain. The obtained results show that creating optically active medium with long-living metastable levels with the energy of 1.0 -3.0 keV and more is possible in the solid state.

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