Session P10: 50 Years Since the Discovery of Parity Nonconservation in the Weak Interactions III

10:45 AM–12:33 PM, Monday, April 24, 2006
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland C

Sponsoring Units: FHP DNP
Chair: Susan Seestrom, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Abstract ID: BAPS.2006.APR.P10.1

Abstract: P10.00001 : The Question Answered

10:45 AM–11:21 AM

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Author:

  Ralph P. Hudson
    (National Institute of Standards and Technology (retired))

Fifty years ago, theoreticians T.D. Lee and C.N. Yang reached the conclusion that no experimental evidence existed to show that parity is conserved in weak interactions. The speaker will explain how it happened that that a team of physicists at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington, DC came to perform the revolutionary experiment that demonstrated the failure of parity conservation in nuclear beta-decay.

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