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The Artificial Production of Mesons

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RECENT reports1 from, the United States announce that E. Gardner and C. M. G. Lattes have observed that mesons are generated when α-particles of great energy are allowed to fall on matter. The α-particles were produced by the 184-in. synchro-cylotron at Berkeley, California, the mesons being detected by the photographic method. Most of the experiments have been made by the bombardment of carbon ; but in similar conditions, targets of beryllium, copper and uranium yield mesons in approximately the same numbers.

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    G. P. S. OCCHIALINI &  C. F. POWELL

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OCCHIALINI, G., POWELL, C. The Artificial Production of Mesons. Nature 161, 551–552 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161551a0

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