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The basis for all contemporary theories of elementary particles is the concept of a field. For each elementary particle there is a corresponding quantum field, and the interaction of elementary particles is defined by the interaction of quantum fields.
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The name quarks for these hypothetical particles was proposed by Gell-Mann, who borrowed it from James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake (New York: Viking Press, 1939), which contains the puzzling line, “Three quarks for Muster Mark!” (p. 383). The term aces, invented by Zweig, did not catch on.
The group SU(3) consists of complex matrices A of the order 3 with the additional relations A A* =A*A = I, A = (āij and ,4* = (ā ji ), where the bar indicates the operation of complex conjugation and I is the identity matrix.
The neutrino was discovered in 1956 by Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan, Jr., in experiments on the Savannah River heavy water reactor in South Carolina. Not until 40 years later did Reines receive the Nobel Prize for this discovery. Sadly, Cowan did not live to see that happy moment.
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Monastyrsky, M. (1999). Theory of Gauge Fields. In: Riemann, Topology, and Physics. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4779-7_13
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