American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations. Phase I: High-Energy Physics.
Oral history interviews. High-Energy Physics. Selected Experiments: FNAL-E-715: Precision Measure of the Decay Sigma- -- N E- NU, 1990-1991
Interviews (listed by institutional member of the collaboration and by name of individual) were conducted with: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory: Joseph Lach (group leader); University of Chicago: Roland Winston (group leader); University of Iowa: Edward McCliment (group leader), Charles Newsom; Yale University: Peter S. Cooper (spokesperson).
A documentation research project to study the complex issues facing the historical documentation of multi-institutional collaborations in physics and allied sciences. FNAL-E-715 was a response to experimental studies implying that the beta decay of Sigma- violated the Cabibbo theory of weak interactions. The collaboration proposed to use its previously used beam apparatus and wire chambers (FNAL-E-497), augmented by electron detectors, to collect more than one hundred times the world sample of sigma- beta decay events. The results upheld the Cabibbo theory. This Soviet/US collaboration did a string of experiments, including FNAL-E-761. 715 was approved in 1982 and completed running 1984.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
University of Chicago.
University of Iowa.
Yale University.
Group work in research.
Particles (Nuclear physics).
Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Experiments -- Documentation.
Physics -- Archival resources.
Physics -- Experiments -- Documentation.
Physics -- Research -- Documentation.
Experimental design.
Oral histories. aat
Interviews. aat
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Particles (Nuclear physics -- Group work in research.
Physics -- Collaboration.
Institute for Nuclear Physics, Leningrad.
Winston, Roland.
American Institute of Physics) Center for History of Physics
Cooper, Peter S.
Lach, Joseph.
McCliment, Edward.
Newsom, Charles.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA