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Article #4284Re: Rishon
From: Maurice V. Barnhill
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 11:42
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 11:42
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In article <1992Sep29.173039.5945@galileo.physics.arizona.edu> seh@neutron.physics.arizona.edu writes
>Does anyone know what a "rishon" is? Someone asked me about this a while
>ago and I couldn't find it in the "Particle Data Handbook." Sounds pretty
>exotic, though...
>
>Thanks,
>Steve Hoell seh@neutron.physics.arizona.edu
Rishons were hypothesized as constituents of quarks. The general idea was to
explain the prolification of quarks by describing them as the bound states
of a smaller number of constitutent particles. The proposal didn't lead
anywhere useful and the idea was abandoned.
Maurice Barnhill
University of Delaware
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