Interplay between Yukawa and Tomonaga in the Birth of Mesons
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
Light is shed on the early stage in the birth of Yukawa's meson theory, particularly on the interplay between Yukawa and Tomonaga in 1933. The discovery of the muon by Nishina' group in 1937 is also reviewed. It is pointed out that Heisenberg's attempt to explain the nuclear force in terms of the Heitler-London scheme, overcome by Yukawa and abandoned since then, is now being revived as a mechanism for a super strong nuclear force caused by a migrating real Kbar meson.
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@article{arxiv.0712.4355,
title = {Interplay between Yukawa and Tomonaga in the Birth of Mesons},
author = {Toshimitsu Yamazaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.4355},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Invited tals at the Yukawa Centennial Session at INPC07, June, 2007, Tokyo. to be published in NPA. Nucl. Phys. A, in press