History of Nuclear and Particle Physics
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History of Nuclear & Particle
Physics
Time line of the discoveries and
the interests
Time line of the experiment & theory
year
Experiment
1927
decay discovered
Theory
1928
Dirac: The wave eq. for electron
1930
Pauli: Prediction of neutrino
1931
Positron discovered;
Chadwick: discovery of
neutron
Dirac: Solution of positron from his
equation
year
Experiment
Fermi: Theory for decay;
Yukawa: Nuclear binding in
terms of mesons
1933
1937
discovered in cosmic
rays
1938
Discovery of Baryon
number conservation
Turned out that was not
Yukawa’s particle
1946
1947
19461950
Theory
+ discovered in cosmic
rays
Tomonaga, Schwinger and
Feynman: development of QED
and renomalization
year
Experiment
1948
First artificial pions
1949
Discovery of K+
1950
Discovery of 0
1951
Discovery of 0 and K0
1952
Discovery of the excited
state of nucleon:
1954
Theory
Yang, Mills: Extension of gauge
theories
year
Experiment
1956
1956
Lee, Yang: Prediction of parity
breakdown at weak force
CS Wu, Amber: Verified
the parity breakdown
1961
1962
Theory
Eightfold way to organize
particles
Discovery of and e
1964
Gellman, (Zweig): Three-quark
model u, d, s
1964
Suggestion of the forth quark, c.
year
Experiment
Theory
1965
Discussion of color charge in
quark
1967
Glashow, Salam, Weinberg:
Unified theory of electro-weak
interactions
Prediction of Higgs boson
19681969
DIS at SLAC
constituents of proton
1973
1974
QCD as a standard model
(quark and gluon)
Asymptotic freedom
Discovery of J/
meson
year
Experiment
1976
D0 meson verified the
theory;
Discovery of lepton
1977
Discovery of bottom quark,
b
1978
Parity violation at neutral
weak interaction
1979
Gluon signature at
PETRA
1983
W and Z0 at CERN
1995
Discovery of top quark, t,
(175 GeV)
1997
Super high energy Physics
at HERA (200 GeV)
Theory
Differences between elementary particle &
nuclear physics
The goal of elementary particle physics
To unify different scales of interactions (forces)
To identify fundamental particles in nature and
to investigate the ultimate law of motion
To find the origin of universe, etc
The goal of nuclear physics
To understand finite atomic nuclei from nucleon
properties and forces
To know the properties of stable materials (“our
everyday life”)
Elementary particle physics
More fundamental investigation in physical
science
Nuclear physics
Application of modern physics including
elementary particle physics
Elementary particle & nuclear physics are closely related historically.
Brief History of Nuclear- Physics Side
year
Experiment
1911
Rutherford: Discovery of
atomic nucleus
1913
Thomson: Nuclear mass
& isotopes
1932
Chadwick: Discovery of
neutron
1934
Deuteron binding energy;
p-p scattering
Theory
Heisenberg: Introduction of
isospin
year
Experiment
Theory
1935
Yukawa: Meson exchange
model
19361951
Establishment of one pion
exchange model
1961
Discovery of ,
mesons (vector
bosons)
19752000
Establishment of one boson
exchange model
19841998
QCD-inspired model
1980-
Effective field theory
Topics of Nuclear Physics
Hadron Structure
The structure of nucleon and modeling
Hadron Spectroscopy
Glueballs, hybrids, multi-quark states (pentaquark)
Heavy Ion Physics
Quark-gluon plasma, and other new phase of matters
Nuclear Astrophysics
Star formation, super novae
Applications
Archeology, environmental science, nuclear medicine,
health physics, nuclear engineering