In this lecture, we present a brief description of properties of the neutron. We describe its internal properties: life time, mass, charge, magnetic and electric dipole moments... Particular attention will be paid to two most important characteristics of the neutron – its life time and electric dipole moment – both of them are now studied in a few different experiments. Moreover, the measuremen...

1. Abstract The most fundamental to the elementary particle is the mass they posses and it would be of importance to explore a possible relationship amongst their masses. Here, an attempt is made to investigate this important aspect irrespective of their nature or scheme of classification. We show that there exists a striking tendency for successive mass differences between elementary particles...

The processes e + e − → nγ (n ≥ 2) are studied to estimate the total and differential cross sections of these reactions using the L3 data collected during 1991–1998 at energies (√ s) in the range 91–183 GeV. The lower limits obtained at 95% CL are, on a contact interaction energy scale Λ > 1065 GeV, on the mass of an excited electron m e * > 263 GeV. The upper and lower limits on the gravitatio...

The idea that the elementary particles might have the symmetry of knots has had a long history. In any modern formulation of this idea, however, the knot must be quantized. The present review is a summary of a small set of papers that began as an attempt to correlate the properties of quantized knots with empirical properties of the elementary particles. As the ideas behind these papers have de...

ABSTR4CT We consider the production of pion pairs in the Coulomb field by photons and pions, a method which can be used to study the 7r-r interaction. Simple general formulas are given for the angular correlations of the 71 pairs, the behavior of the cross section with angle and energy, and the effects of the p " coherent production background.. The question of the nature value of the T-T inter...

I have been asked to review the history of the formation of the Standard Model. It is natural to tell this story as a sequence of brilliant ideas and experiments, but here I will also talk about some of the misunderstandings and false starts that went along with this progress, and why some steps were not taken until long after they became possible. The study of what was not understood by scient...

During the past few years there haa accumulated so much experimental information on hyperons and heavy mesons that some of the many puzzling questions on these strange particles arebeing resolved. Under such circumstances one is often motivated to seek for an ordering principle by which one can understand why there are such particles as being known, why they are of such nature as being observed...

As explained in the official problem description set out by Arthur Jaffe and Edward Witten, Yang-Mills theory is a generalization of Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism, in which the basic dynamical variable is a connection on a G-bundle over four-dimensional space-time. Its quantum version is the key ingredient in the Standard Model of the elementary particles and their interactions, and a so...

The mediators of the weak force—the W and Z bosons—are both roughly 100 times more massive than the proton, while the photon, which mediates the electromagnetic force, is massless. Based on symmetry principles, one would have expected the W , Z, and photon (collectively called gauge bosons) to all be massless. In order to generate the required symmetry breaking, one must invent a particular set...