Okay... But the topic is just whether or not ultrasonic transmutation proves the existence of LENR. I guess the answer is a definitive "yes"? So if I gave a TED Talk, and I showed people the ULTR experiment and the results, and I said, "See? All sorts of new elements, this proves LENR is a real effect", I would be right, and then CMNS would be welcomed into the CMP world with broad acceptance? I'm idealizing my example here but hopefully you understand what I'm asking. Politics of science aside, am I understanding the physics concepts correctly?
New elements => nuclear reactions. That is the physics.
Proving you have new elements is complex because:
(1) results can be misinterpreted - often interpretations are ambiguous but of course those making a specific interpretation may not say that.
(2) you need before and after measurements, and comparison
(3) you need to consider differences between before and after due to heterogeneity in the sample
The most vivid (sic) example of this heterogeneity effect is where measurements from old CF bulbs showed a strongly skewed isotopic composition in the mercury. The hypothesis was that this was cause by nuclear reactions induced by the running of the bulbs.
In fact the skewed distribution was caused by an effect where the mercury was isotopically separated by the sputtering process, and the samples taken from old bulbs were juts part of the original mercury - with a skewed isotopic ratio.
However it was a mystery for quite a long time with some claiming LENR.