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Latest work on the $A_{2}$ meson sees no split

JUL 01, 1971

DOI: 10.1063/1.3022839

Gloria B. Lubkin

Interest ran high at the special session on the $A_{2}$ meson, held at the Washington APS meeting. Many of those who crowded into the room hoped that a new experiment designed to duplicate the original CERN experiment would at last settle the question of whether or not the $A_{2}$ is split, that is, does it exist as two identical particles differing only in mass by 3%?

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