Early Attempts to Detect the Neutrino at the Cavendish Laboratory
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- 作者：Jaume Navarro
- 关键词：Hans A. Bethe ; Niels Bohr ; James Chadwick ; Arthur S. Eddington ; Charles D. Ellis ; Enrico Fermi ; George Gamow ; William J. Henderson ; Alexander I. Leipunski ; Lise Meitner ; Maurice E. Nahmias ; Wolfgang Pauli ; Rudolf Peierls ; Ernest Rutherford ; Cavendish Laboratory ; beta decay ; neutrino
- 刊名：Physics in Perspective (PIP)
- 出版年：2006
- 出版时间：March 2006
- 年：2006
- 卷：8
- 期：1
- 页码：64-82
- 全文大小：566 KB
- 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
- 刊物主题：Physics
Physics - 出版者：Birkh盲user Basel
- ISSN：1422-6960
文摘
In the 1920s and early 1930s the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge was preeminent in experimental research on radioactivity and nuclear physics, with theoretical physics playing a subsidiary role in guiding, but not determining the course of experimental research. Soon after Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958) proposed his neutrino hypothesis in 1930 to preserve conservation of energy and momentum in beta decay, experiments – the first of their kind – were carried out in the Cavendish Laboratory to detect Pauli’s elusive particle, but they were abandoned in 1936. I trace these early attempts and suggest reasons for their abandonment, which may contribute to an understanding of the complex way in which theoretical entities are accepted by physicists.