The discovery of the tau lepton
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OSTI ID:10107543
The discovery of the tau lepton and the third generation of fermions came from the convergence of three physics streams in the late 1960`s and early 1970`s. These streams were: the failed attempts by myself and others to understand the connection between the electron and the muon, the development of electron-positron storage rings, and the development of the theory of sequential leptons. In this paper I give the history of the discovery of the tau and the measurement of its major properties-the properties which established the tau as a sequential lepton.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 10107543
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-5937; CONF-9206131-3; ON: DE93004013
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 3. international symposium on the history of particle physics - the rise of the standard model,Stanford, CA (United States),24-27 Jun 1992; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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