New Evidence for the Existence of a Particle Intermediate Between the Proton and Electron", Physical Review

Street, J.C. , and E.C. Stevenson. +Existence of the Muon Confirmed+

Published by American Institute of Physics, 1937

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Street, J.C. , and E.C. Stevenson. +Existence of the Muon Confirmed+ New Evidence for the Existence of a Particle Intermediate Between the Proton and Electron", Phys. Rev. vol 52 number 9, 1 November 1937, p.1003. In the original wrappers. VG copy. [+] "Muons were discovered by Carl D. Anderson and Seth Neddermeyer in a cloud chamber experiment at CalTech in 1936. Anderson had noticed particles in the cosmic radiation that curved differently from electrons and other known particles when they passed through a magnetic field. The particles were positively and negatively charged and curved less sharply than electrons, but more sharply than protons for the same velocity. To account for the difference in curvature, it was supposed that their mass was greater than that of an electron but smaller than that of a proton. The existence of such a particle was confirmed in 1937 [in this paper offered] by J. C. Street and E. C. Stevenson in a cloud chamber experiment."--European School of Instrumentation."The Detection of the Muon", online. [++] Also see Cahn and Goldhaber, "The Experimental Foundation of Particle Physics", 1989, where the article is reproduced in full (following the epochal Neddermeyer and Anderson paper on the nature of cosmic-ray particles from March of that year. [++] Also: Ezhela, Particle Physics, One Hundred Years of Discoveries.p. 78 (1937B).

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• Title: New Evidence for the Existence of a Particle Intermediate Between the Proton and Electron", Physical Review
• Publisher: American Institute of Physics
• Publication Date: 1937
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
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