Description | Includes:
Correspondence with CD Anderson, November 1949-August 1950, re proposal that E Cowan should spend some time in Blackett's laboratory at Manchester (he was unable to do so), and verification by Anderson's team of Rochester's and Butler's hypothesis that forked tracks were 'caused by new unstable particles'; re Pic du Midi project and re naming of new particles.
In his letter of 12 July 1950, Blackett suggests the name 'V-tracks' and 'V-particles' and adds: 'I would like to get our ideas set on this questions before the end of August as I will be talking at the British Association on these particles on the 31st, and would like by then to have come to some decision as to what they should be called. I propose to write to Niels Bohr to ask for his approval when I have heard from you'. (see also Blackett's letter of 19 July 1950 to AH Chapman in B.44).
An extract from a letter from Anderson to Rochester, 18 January 1950, is attaches to correspondence of 23 November 1949.
'Paris 28.4.50. T-Meson'. 6pp manuscript notes for talk on 'Two new processes'.
3pp manuscript notes by Blackett on paper 'Cloud Chamber observations of new unstable particle' by Anderson's team; a manuscript note at head reads 'no unpublished comment till a paper appears'.
A press-cutting from 'Life' magazine 1950, on the new particle is also included. |