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...prizewinners predicted the existence of the underlying "neutral current" and the "charm quark" particle more than six years before their existence was proven experimentally, Strauch said. He added that the experimenters who detected the "charm quark" in 1973 were awarded Nobel Prizes after two years while the theoreticians had to wait until yesterday...
...this time the physicists saw three jets: as they interpreted the results, two were from a quark and its antimatter equivalent, the antiquark; the third apparently from a gluon...
...title "Hark, Hark, a Quark -Maybe" [May 2] was the mark of an aardvark who crawled in from a stark Ozark park and was really in the dark. As Professor Gell-Mann could tell you. Quark rhymes with torque, pork, stork, cork, fork and Sergeant O'Rourke of New York, New York...
Heeding traditional scientific protocol, Fairbank last week was not talking publicly in advance of the scheduled publication of his results in Physical Review Letters. But the basic operation of his quark-hunting experiment is known. As their tool, Fairbank and two young colleagues-Arthur Hebard, now at Bell Laboratories, and George LaRue-devised an updated version of the classical "oil drop" experiment, first used by Robert Millikan in 1910 to measure the charge on a single electron. Instead of oil drops, the Fairbank team relied on tiny spheres of niobium, a metal that becomes a superconductor when it is chilled...
Physicists at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology contacted yesterday said they are still uncertain about the implications of the discovery. William B. Fairbanks, professor of Physics at Stanfor University, who headed the experimental group that isolated the quark, presented his findings to the American Physical Society at a conference in Washington, D.C., Tuesday...