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| Title | The Discovery of the Tau Lepton: Part 1, The Early History Through 1975; Part 2, Confirmation of the Discovery and Measurement of Major Properties, 1976--1982 | |
| Author(s) | Perl, M. L. | |
| Publication Date | August 1994 | |
| Report Number | SLAC-PUB--6584 | |
| Unique Identifier | ACC0025 | |
| Other Numbers | CONF-9407157--2; Legacy ID: DE95005945; OSTI ID: 10109095 | |
| Research Org | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, Menlo Park, CA (United States) [SLAC] | |
| Contract No | AC03-76SF00515 | |
| Sponsoring Org | DOE/ER | |
| Other Information | International Conference on the History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries in Particle Physics, Erice, Sicily (Italy),29 Jul - 4 Aug 1994; | |
| Subject | 72 Physics of Elementary Particles and Fields | |
| Keywords | Tau Particles/Particle Identification; Historical Aspects; Muon-Proton Interactions; Electron-Positron Interactions; Semileptonic Decay | |
| Related Web Pages | Martin Perl and the Tau Lepton | |
| Abstract | Several previous papers have given the history of the discovery of the {tau} lepton at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). These papers emphasized (a) the experiments which led to our 1975 publication of the first evidence for the existence of the {tau}, (b) the subsequent experiments which confirmed the existence of the r, and (c) the experiments which elucidated the major properties of the {tau}. That history will be summarized in Part 2 of this talk. In this Part 1, I describe the earlier thoughts and work of myself and my colleagues at SLAC in the 1960's and early 1970's which led to the discovery. I also describe the theoretical and experimental events in particle physics in the 1960's in which our work was immersed. I will also try to describe for the younger generations of particle physicists, the atmosphere in the 1960's. That was before the elucidation of the quark model of hadrons, before the development of the concept of particle generations The experimental paths to program we hot as clear as they are today and we had to cast a wide experimental net. | |
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