The discovery of the gluon
Abstract
Soon after the postulation of quarks, it was suggested that they interact via gluons, but direct experimental evidence was lacking for over a decade. In 1976, Mary Gaillard, Graham Ross and the author suggested searching for the gluon via 3-jet events due to gluon bremsstrahlung in e+ e- collisions. Following our suggestion, the gluon was discovered at DESY in 1979 by TASSO and the other experiments at the PETRA collider.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Modern Physics A
- Pub Date:
- December 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1142/S0217751X14300725
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1409.4232
- Bibcode:
- 2014IJMPA..2930072E
- Keywords:
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- Quarks;
- gluons;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, 2 figures, Contribution to the book `50 Years of Quarks' to be published by World Scientific