- Anderson, who
discovered the muon, had
originally named the
particle the "
mesotron", but he was
corrected by the
physicist Werner Heisenberg (whose father...
- McKenzie's wife Lynn McKenzie. For his thesis,
Oppenheimer had him look at
mesotrons,
subatomic particles called muons today, that had
recently been found...
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between those of the
electron and the proton,
which Anderson called "
mesotrons". The
mesotron subsequently became the
known as the "μ meson",
which was shortened...
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smaller than a proton's. Thus
Anderson initially called the new
particle a
mesotron,
adopting the
prefix meso- from the Gr**** word for "mid-". The existence...
- be
christened the "meson" in line with the word's Gr**** etymology, not "
mesotron" as
Anderson had proposed.
Bhabha later concluded that
observations of...
- The
discharge mechanism of
Geiger counters. 2. The mean
lifetime of the
mesotron from
electroscope data (PhD).
California Institute of Technology. OCLC 437069509...
- H.; Weinberg, J. (1940). "On the
Existence of
Stationary States of the
Mesotron Field".
Physical Review. 57 (4): 315–318. Bibcode:1940PhRv...57..315S....
- 2009-07-12. Rossi, B.; Hall, D. B. (1941). "Variation of the Rate of
Decay of
Mesotrons with Momentum".
Physical Review. 59 (3): 223. Bibcode:1941PhRv...59..223R...
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publications included research articles with
titles such as "Cascade
Showers and
Mesotron-Produced
Secondaries in Lead" (1946), but also
broader essays on higher...
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Debendra Mohan Bose. Together, they
experimentally observed and
published on
mesotron showers,
later called mesons. She
studied batches of
Ilford half-tone plates...
