NEW EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS FROM CERN AND FERMILAB CONFIRM THE EXISTENCE OF ODERON, PREDICTED BY DR. BASARAB NICOLESCU, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT UBB
Posted date: 12 Jul 2021
The analysis of the results recently obtained in the LHC particle accelerator at CERN and the Tevatron at Fermilab confirmed the hypotheses formulated by Prof. Basarab Nicolescu and the Polish physicist Leszek Lukaszuk in 1973 regarding the existence of the oderon.
The two theorists, by calculations made almost 50 years ago, explained, in the theory of asymptotic theorems, the asymmetries observed in the effective scattering sections between proton-proton and proton-antiproton collisions, assuming the existence of a mediator of forces with strange properties, called by them "odderon". Later, in quantum chromodynamics (the mathematical formalism by which we describe the strong interactions inside nuclei) this particle was redefined as a strange state of matter, a unique bond between three gluons (elementary particles that bind quarks together). For almost 50 years, however, the odderon has remained an enigma of physics, its existence not being rigorously demonstrated in the experimental physics of elementary particles.
The new results obtained by CERN and Fermilab showed that Professor Nicolescu's predictions are rigorously confirmed. These results have been highly publicized in recent months by prestigious publications around the world. It is also worth mentioning that similar analyzes performed on data with weaker statistics by Basarab Nicolescu in 2018 also indicated a first experimental confirmation. Originally, the name "odderon" comes from the English word "odd" (odd, strange).
Professor Basarab Nicolescu's academic career is linked to the CNRS laboratories in France until 2008, when he retired. He worked at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Division of Theoretical Physics, Orsay, and later at the Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and High Energy, University of Paris VI. In 2001 he was elected an honorary member of the Romanian Academy. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of several universities in the world. Currently, Prof. Basarab Nicolescu is a PhD supervisor and associate professor at Babe?-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.
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