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Elementary Particles and Nucleon Structure
THIS CHAPTER COVERS…
- The nature and properties of fundamental constituents of matter called elementary particles.
- The pions and their contribution in strong interactions and particle reactions.
- The classification of elementary particles and the quantum numbers governing their transformations and reactions.
- Strange particles, their properties and a brief introduction to the nucleon structure.
17.1 INTRODUCTION
About fifty years ago, it was easy to build a system of atoms and nuclei using only protons and electrons. Even with the advent of neutron in 1932, there was little difficulty in setting up models in terms of three elementary particles as units.
With the discovery of first antiparticle, ...
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