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.

Some unusual structures on the surface of metals and films (various x-ray films and nuclear emulsions ) caused by exposure to bombardment by low-energy ions in glow discharge plasma, in electrolysis and other low-energy processes (when energy of particles doesn't exceed several keV) have been found. The mechanism and model of the strange tracks formations and explanation of their structure change are suggested.

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Results of examinations of changes in structure, element, and isotope composition of cathodes after the glow discharge exposure in hydrogen, deuterium, argon, and xenon are submitted. The voltage of the discharge was less than 1000 V and the current was 5-150 mA. Samples before and after ions bombardment in the glow discharge were explored by the methods of mass spectrometry: the secondary ions (SIMS), the secondary ions with additional ionization of neutral sprayed particles (SNMS), spark (SMS), and thermo-ionization (TIMS), and also methods of energy dispersion X-ray spectral analysis (EDX). The alpha-, beta-, gamma-emission, and gamma-spectrometry for radioactive uranium specimens were also carried out before and after experiments in the glow discharge. Changes in structure, isotope, and element composition of the cathode samples depend on current density, integrated ions flow (fluence of ions), kind of irradiating ions and other experimental conditions. Attempts are made to estimate qualitatively and quantitatively the role of each of the parameters on intensity of the observed changes in cathode composition. It is shown that the maximum changes in structure, chemical and isotope composition of the cathode material occur in "hot points," such as craters from microexplosions, phase segregations, blisters and other new formations. Various methods of the analysis revealed that the basic elements Mg, O, Si, Al, and Ca with quantities up to per cents and more were prevailing in these zones and not found out before experiment. The greatest changes of the isotope relations were observed for iron, calcium, silicon, chromium after experiments with pulsing current. EDX method finds out the elements missing in the samples before experiment such as cadmium, strontium, tin. The isotopes with mass number 59 (Co 100%), 55 (Mn 100%), 45 (Sc 100%) are also not found in initial samples and background measurement by TIMS method. Results of changes in the element and isotope composition, which are found by various methods of the analysis, are compared with possible reactions of fusion-fission. It is noted that under different experimental conditions on various cathode materials similar groups of prevailing elements are find by various methods of the analysis.