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anomalon

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anomalon [ə′näm·ə‚län]
(nuclear physics)
A nuclear fragment, produced in the collision of a projectile nucleus at relativistic energy with a target nucleus at rest, that has an anomalously short mean free path, comparable to that of a uranium nucleus.


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Jain of the State University of New York at Buffalo, the quarry is an elusive particle called the anomalon, apparently created in high-energy collisions between heavy atomic nuclei and atoms in a solid target.
If anomalons exist, they could represent a previously unknown and highly reactive state of nuclear matter.
 
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