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...designs were attempts to produce the raw materials of the study -- the photographed tracks of thousands of collisions between two moving particles, an electron and an positron. Normal accelerator experiments send one particle into a stationary target...
...higher energy would come from the collision of two moving subnuclear particles--an electron and a positron. Normal accelerator experiments send a particle into a stationary target. But these cohisions, Pipkin said, can only take place in a "ring" where both particles are stored--which could cost as much as $16 million to build. The CEA instead would make a giant storage ring out of its accelerator by adding an injector for positrons to the present one for electrons. The two particles would rotate in opposite directions. At a given point the two streams could be made to collide...
Working with what is known about the 28 accelerator-produced new particles, Grebe theorizes that they may all be multiples or combinations of only two: pairs of the negatively charged electron and the positively charged electron (positron). Reason is his discovery of two key particle ratios: that between the mass of mu and pi mesons, and that between the mass of the proton and sigma hyperon. Each proves to equal TT divided by four; this produces a new constant (1.12888), based on the inverse of the square root of TT divided by four, which Grebe calls "g." This tool "opens...
Other men have unsuccessfully focused on the electron and positron as the atom's "building blocks." Grebe hopes his table may have turned the trick. For it would, he suggests, indicate that gravity itself is an electromagnetic force accountable in electromagnetic terms. Like many another, this "unified field theory" may also fail. But, says Grebe, "the mathematical relations discovered cannot help but remain and be a useful step forward...
...negative protons? Scientists searched for them for years in cosmic rays, but found only a few doubtful cases. They hoped to create them in the laboratory, but no existing cyclotron had enough power. It took the Berkeley Bevatron to create an antiproton out of energy. Like the positron, it, too, appears only paired with an ordinary proton, and destroys itself as soon as it collides with a proton...