Artificial V Particles
DOI: 10.1063/1.3061345
When the Cosmotron at the AEC’s Brookhaven National Laboratory was put into operation last year it was announced that one of the first matters to be investigated was the possibility of producing V particles artificially rather than depending only upon their chance discovery in cloud‐chamber photographs of cosmic‐ray events. A Brookhaven group consisting of W. B. Fowler, R. P. Shutt, A. M. Thorndike, and W. L. Whittemore has recently obtained cloud‐chamber photographs providing clear evidence that the mysterious and unstable neutral V particles can indeed be produced by the high‐energy neutrons emitted from an internal target in the Cosmotron, or possibly by secondaries of the neutrons.
