15 Nov
1997
15 Nov
'97
10:53 a.m.
Tim Shoppa wrote:
Mesons are simply either pions, muons, or
kasons!
To complicate matters, muons used to be called "mu mesons", but it
turned out that muons weren't mesons after all - they're leptons.
Doesn't matter much, because as a practical matter we make muons too.
(Pion decay is the common method.)
After you make them, who buys them?
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
Tim Shoppa | Internet:
shoppa(a)triumf.ca
TRIUMF, Canada's National Meson Facility | Voice: 604-222-1047 loc 6446
Hey
Tim, what is a Meson Facility anyway?