Predictability of Theory, and Collaboration with Experimentalists in CMNS

Condensed Matter Nuclear Science has confirmed 2 outstanding experimental results: 144.5W of continuous ``Excess Heat'' in 10 minutes(ICCF-3,1992) and the nuclear transmutation induced by deuterium flux on the Pd surface (ICCF-8, 2000). Theory predicted neutron emission based on the previous beam-target experiments. It was a wrong guidance, because there was no ``commensurate neutron'' detected. The collaboration with experimentalists helped theorist to modify their prediction in the past 19 years. Theorists might imagine that ``high loading ratio'' was necessary; then, the experiments said ``deuterium flux was more important.'' Resonant tunneling theory imagined again ``any resonance in inelastic scattering (nuclear reaction) had to be accompanied by a resonance in elastic scattering (diffusion); hence, a peak in excess heat should be correlated with a peak in deuterium flux.'' The experiments seem to confirm this imagination\footnote{J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys.36 3095(2003)}. The next 2 predictions are: (1) Adjusting the loading rate to form a steady state for resonant tunneling;(2)Neutrino detection from this steady state to confirm its nuclear nature.