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The Strangeness of Murray Gell-Mann

Madhusudhan Raman 31/05/2019

In the 1940s and 1950s, experimentalists dredged up the...

Murray Gell-Mann, theoretical physics, particle physics, Richard Feynman, Richard Dalitz, SU(3) symmetry, quarks, gluons, Large Hadron Collider, Hideki Yukawa, neutrinos, see-saw mechanism, Shoichi Sakata, Yuval Ne'eman, George Zweig, Eightfold Way, protons, neutrons, Lambda particles, mesons, baryons, hadrons, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, SLAC, strong interactions, strong nuclear force, Santa Fe Institute, AN Mitra,

How Murray Gell-Mann Brought Clarity to a New Force of Nature

G. Rajasekaran 30/05/2019

Though his most well-known contribution is the proposal that...

Ernest Rutherford, proton, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, quark model, Murray Gell-Mann, George Zweig, quantum chromodynamics, strong nuclear force, string theory, SLAC, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, glasma, quark gluon plasma, gluon, parton distribution functions, colour glass condensate, spin crisis,

A Century of the Proton

Vasudevan Mukunth 23/05/2019

Only 100 years after the proton was first sussed...

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Using Ultrafast Laser, ‘Mini’ Particle Accelerator Sets New Energy Record

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/02/2019

Smaller accelerators will be more affordable. In the hands...