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How I got to work with Feynman on the covariant quark model

History and Philosophy of Physics 2015-06-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In the period 1968 - 1974 I was a graduate student and then a postdoc at Caltech and was involved with the developments of the quark and parton models. Most of this time I worked in close contact with Richard Feynman and thus was present from the parton model was proposed until QCD was formulated. A personal account is presented how the collaboration took place and how the various stages of this development looked like from the inside until QCD was established as a theory for strong interactions with the partons being quarks and gluons.

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@article{arxiv.1411.0509,
  title  = {How I got to work with Feynman on the covariant quark model},
  author = {Finn Ravndal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.0509},
  year   = {2015}
}

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LaTeX, 20 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to "50 Years of Quarks", to be published by World Scientific