Anomalon

Anomalon is a hypothetical subatomic particle . Anomalon is a secondary particle resulting from the bombardment of a target nucleus by another nucleus. It is also called a fragment of the incident nucleus. The unusual nature of the anomalon is due to the fact that, being a nuclear fragment, it exceeds the whole core in volume. Another inexplicable oddity is that the reaction time, as a result of which an anomalon appears, significantly exceeds the interaction time of the nuclei.

Sergey Bogdanov, professor at the Department of Experimental Nuclear Physics at St. Petersburg State Technical University, believes that the anomalon owes its name to the typo: “When preparing an article about unusual (anomalous) sections of secondary nuclear fragments, the author printed“ n ”instead of“ u ”, which served a reason for the appearance in the scientific literature of a new term ” ^[1] .