Abstract
The paper of Dersch et al. [1], concerning the results of inelastic40Ar + Cu collisions at 1.8 and 0.9 GeV per nucleon, is discussed. The authors have explained their experimental results on the basis of the concept of anomalons of a lifetime of ∼2·10−10 s and/or as “inconsistency with known nuclear physics”. It is shown that such conclusions are untenable, and the data presented in the cited paper can be explained within the frame of known physics.
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