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Eugen Leitl:
Give me a couple of papers which are not BS.

# I'm biased, maybe, because I knew
Giuliano Preparata [1][2], but the
paper below seems good. (It is the
only paper I've read, on CF).

That is to say, the experimental
part seems (to me) serious (definitely not
BS), and the theoretical model seems (to me)
interesting [3].

A.De Ninno, A. Frattolillo, A. Rizzo,
E. del Giudice, G. Preparata
"Experimental evidence of 4He production
in a cold fusion experiment"
RT/2002/41/FUS
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/DeNinnoAexperiment.pdf
www.fusione.enea.it/pubblications/TR/2002/RT-2002-41-FUS.pdf

[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuliano_Preparata

[2]
Giuliano Preparata 1942-2000
http://cerncourier.com/main/article/40/6/22
Italian theoretician Giuliano Preparata died 
in Frascati on 24 April after a relatively short 
battle against cancer. Born in Padua, he studied 
in Rome. After graduating in 1964 he joined Raoul 
Gatto's group in Florence. Later he was in the US 
at Princeton, Harvard and Rockefeller universities. 
In those years he produced excellent work on symmetries, 
current algebra and on the field theory approach to 
particle physics. After returning to Rome, he was
soon called to CERN as a staff member. He was later 
Professor of Theoretical Physics at Bari and Milan.
Preparata was a theorist of great talent, with 
tremendous drive and a strong personality. His most 
recognized contribution to particle physics is
the extension of the Wilson short-distance operator 
expansion to the whole of the light cone, developed 
in collaboration with Richard Brandt in around
1970. This remains a basic theoretical tool for 
the understanding of inclusive electron-positron 
annihilation and deep inelastic lepton scattering. 
However, his interests were already very wide and, 
in the same years, he produced a well known, 
seminal paper on nonlinear quantum optics with Rodolfo 
Bonifacio. With time he progressively became critical 
of many steps in the construction of the Standard 
Model and of some parts of its foundations, such as QCD. 
His interests were then increasingly concentrated on 
different subjects, often with non-conventional 
approaches and opinions, such as nuclear physics, 
superconductivity, cold fusion and quantum gravity. 
He worked until the end with great energy. He was at 
CERN for the last time in January, when Remo Ruffini 
gave a presentation on their work on a possible 
mechanism for the production of gamma-ray bursts.

[3] I mean the 'Preparata effect', a sort of
Bohm-Aharonov effect, in which the e.m. (vector)
potential, and not the field, acts on wavefunctions 
and changes the phases [4]. But the complete 
theoretical model (with detailed calculations 
predicting experimental thresholds, etc.) was 
published in a book, and I do not have infos about 
it.  

[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharonov-Bohm_effect
http://msc.phys.rug.nl/quantummechanics/ab.htm