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Before 1986 hadron names were often inspired by fantasy or the name of the discoverer.
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such as A for “Andrei”, B for “Buddha” (a fat resonance), F for “Felicitas”, E for “Elisabeth” or perhaps “Europe”!
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Aguilar-Benitez, M., et al. (Particle Data Group): Phys. Lett. 170B, 1 (1986)
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Amsler, C. (2018). Nomenclature. In: The Quark Structure of Hadrons. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 949. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98527-5_4
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