Known particles c. 1935

  • 1936-37 Bowdoin Catalog

    • Standard model of particle physics

  • "Who ordered that?": I. I. Rabi (1898-1988)
  • QED Nobel prize
  • QCD Nobel prize
  • Electroweak Nobel prize

    • Particle properties

  • 2010 Particle Data Booklet
  • Baryons
  • Mesons
  • Leptons
  • Quarks
  • Gauge/Higgs bosons
  • Proton (live)
  • Neutron (live)
  • Electron (live)
  • Muon (live)
  • Proton
  • Neutron

    • Angular momentum

  • Clebsch-Gordan coefficients

    • Nuclei

  • Segre chart I
  • Segre chart II
  • 238U series
  • 235U series
  • 232Th series
  • 237Np series

    • Nuclear models

  • Curve of binding energy
  • Chemical vs. nuclear energy

    • Nuclear fission

  • Fission decay products
  • Fritz Strassmann, Lise Meitner, and Otto Hahn
  • Enrico Fermi (1901-54)
  • First controlled chain reaction
  • Layers of graphite bricks
  • More layers of graphite bricks

    • Alpha decay

  • Rutherford and Geiger
  • Geiger-Nuttall relationship
  • Thorium alpha decay spectrum
  • Radium energy levels

    • Beta decay and the prediction of neutrinos

  • Tritium beta decay spectrum
  • Dear radioactive ladies and gentleman
  • Kurie plot I
  • Kurie plot II

    • The detection of the neutrino

  • Fission decay products
  • Neutrino detection team
  • Detecting reactor antineutrinos
  • Tau and neutrino Nobel (Perl and Reines)

    • Nuclear fusion and solar neutrinos

  • Hans Bethe (1906-2005)
  • Solar neutrino spectrum

    • Leptons

  • Cloud chamber
  • Fermilab hydrogen bubble chamber
  • Carl Anderson
  • Positron discovery 1932
  • Production of electron-positron pair
  • Muon track

    • Strong isopsin

  • A=7 energy levels
  • A=6 energy levels

    • Hadrons

  • E. O. Lawrence (1901-1958)
  • Cyclotron
  • pp cross-section
  • pi-p cross-section (tif)
  • pi-p cross-section (pdf)
  • Invariant mass spectrum for rho

    • Strangeness

  • Strange particles
  • Cascade particles
  • Discovery of a new particle

    • Eightfold-way and quark model

  • Omega discovery
  • Gell-Mann and Feynman
  • The Noble Eightfold Path
  • Finnegans Wake (first page)
  • Finnegans Wake (last page)
  • Three quarks for Muster Mark
  • Gell-Mann at Sidneyfest
  • Quark masses (bare/effective)
  • Hadron mass predictions
  • Baryon magnetic moment predictions
  • SU(4) multiplets

    • QED

  • Gamma cross-section
  • R

    • QCD

  • QCD jets 1
  • QCD jets 2

    • GWS

  • Z-width

    • Loop effects

  • Third-order diagrams contributing to electron anomalous magnetic moment
  • Running of coupling constants

    • Photos (alphabetical)

  • Hans Bethe (1906-2005)
  • Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
  • Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
  • Enrico Fermi (1901-54)
  • George Gamow (1904-68)
  • Jeff Harvey
  • Wolfgang Pauli (1900-58)
  • I. I. Rabi (1898-1988)
  • Ernst Stuckelberg (1905-1984)