Chronology of Milestone Events in Particle Physics - FERMI 1949
Chronology of Milestone Events in Particle Physics

FERMI 1949

Fermi, E.; Yang, C.N.;
Are Mesons Elementary Particles?
Phys. Rev. 76 (1949) 1739;

Reprinted in
Enrico Fermi. Collected Papers (Note e Memorie) v. I. Italy 1921 - 1938 (1962). The University of Chicago Press - Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma.
(translation into Russian) Enrico Fermi. Nauchnye Trudy. I. 1921-1938 Italiya. (pod red. B.Pontecorvo), Nauka, Moskva, 1971.
C. N. Yang, Selected Papers 1945-1980, p. 122-126.

Abstracts
The hypothesis that -mesons may be composite particles formed by the association of a nucleon with an anti-nucleon is discussed. From an extremely crude discussion of the model it appears that such a meson would have in most respects properties similar to those of the meson of the Yukawa theory.

Related references
See also
K. M. Case, Phys. Rev. 76 (1949) 14;
G. Wentzel, Rev. of Mod. Phys. 19 (1947) 1;

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First composite model of pions.
    
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