
Origin Of The Third Family, The
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Will be published approx. on 5. June 1998
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-981-02-3163-7 (ISBN)
Description
In 1967 a group of physicists from the University of Bologna, led by A Zichichi, published a proposal to search for a heavy lepton using the Frascati (e+e-) collider. The proposal, whose key pages are reproduced in this book on the 30th anniversary of the publication, was the consequence of many years of work started at CERN, where, in addition to the original idea of searching for a heavy lepton carrying its own leptonic number, new technologies were invented to allow the detection of a signal whose identification against the high background of hadronic processes was extremely difficult.More than ten years of work by A Zichichi, together with his students and his collaborators, have paved the way for the discovery of the Third Family of fundamental particles. In this authoritative volume, a group of eminent physicists unequivocally establishes the origin of the Third Family of the basic constituents of matter.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 208 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
617 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-02-3163-7 (9789810231637)
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Persons
Editor
Bologna Academy Of Science, Italy
Univ Of Bologna, Italy
Infn & Univ Of Rome, Italy
Sif, Italy
Content
The origin of the third family, C.S. Wu; heavy leptons, T.D. Lee; lepton physics at CERN and Frascati, N. Cabibbo; search for heavy leptons from time-like photons at CERN, V.F. Weisskopf; the beginning of the physics of leptons, S.C.C. Ting; the basic steps which led to the discovery of the heavy lepton tau - a historical record, C. Villi; concerning the discovery of the heavy lepton, M. Conversi; the roots of the third family, A. Petermann; the search of heavy leptons by A. Zichichi and his collaborators, B.H. Wilk, G. Wolf. Appendices: foundations of sequential heavy lepton searchers, a. Zichichi; answers to claims for priorities on HL and to criticism of the BCF experimental set-up, A. Zichichi.