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The Hunting of the quark - Livestream

Michael Riordan

 

Between 1967 and 1976, experiments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (and elsewhere) demonstrated the existence of fundamental particles known as quarks inside protons, neutrons, and other hadrons. I describe the key SLAC experiments and the related theoretical advances that led to the quark-parton model becoming the accepted picture of subatomic matter by the late 1970s. Among the experiments were the MIT-SLAC deep-inelastic electron-nucleon scattering experiments in SLAC End Station A and the SLAC-LBL experiments on the SPEAR electron-positron collider, both of which led to Nobel prizes for physicists involved. From the historical perspective of one participant, these experiments proved pivotal in the establishment of the now-dominant Standard Model of elementary particle physics.

Speaker: Dr. Michael Riordan, UC Santa Cruz

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Monday, 05/16/22

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