https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/e2013-40024-3
Personal recollection
An early neutrino experiment: how we missed quark substructure in 1963
Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, University of
Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building,
Keble Rd, Oxford
OX1 3RH,
UK
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e-mail: d.perkins1@physics.ox.ac.uk
Received:
4
June
2013
Received in final form:
10
June
2013
Published online:
18
September
2013
Some 50 years after the event seems to be an appropriate time at which to take a long look back at one of the early neutrino experiments at CERN. This report is principally about a failure in a 1963 bubble chamber experiment to detect substructure in the nucleon, a year before the quark concept was invented by Gell-Mann and Zweig, and some five years before the existence of quarks as real dynamical objects was definitely established in deep inelastic electron scattering experiments at Stanford.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag 2013
