1 / 1

Professor Samuel C.C. Ting

1976 Nobel Prize: the J/Psi Particle Awarded for their “pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.”. Professor Samuel C.C. Ting. Professor Burton Richter. J Particle Collided protons with a beryllium target at rest

macon-dyer
Download Presentation

Professor Samuel C.C. Ting

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. 1976 Nobel Prize: the J/Psi Particle Awarded for their “pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.” Professor Samuel C.C. Ting Professor Burton Richter • J Particle • Collided protons with a beryllium target at rest • Created “daughter particles” (electron and positron) through radiation • Predicted attributes of “parent particle” from “daughter particles” • Difficulties: • Picking a few pairs of • “daughter particles” • from countless other • particles being • produced • Psi Particle • Collided electrons with positrons to create a heavier particle • Particle lived much longer than expected • Difficulties: • Found that the particle • could only be created • at a specific speed of • collision • Used particle accelerators • Years of preparation • Discovered the same particle nearly simultaneously • Implications of discovery: • Essential in understanding the composition of matter • Further supported new dimensions since it takes a fourth quark to understand the J/Psi particle • “Changed the physics of elementary particles” Sources: "Press Release: The 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2013. Web. 8 Oct 2013. <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1976/press.html>

More Related