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Filtering by: Creator Swanner, Leandra Date issued sim 2006-07-25 Subject Leptons (Nuclear physics) -- History

The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

Creator:

Swanner, Leandra

Abstract:

This study examines the interactions between the scientific communities of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the discovery of the tau lepton by physicist Martin Perl between 1973- 1977. Perl became interested in searching for heavy leptons through positron-electron collision experiments using the...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis