The Hunting of the quark - Livestream
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
Monday, 05/16/22
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