The Early History of The Strange Particles

Exploring strange realm

“…In December 1947 George Rochester and Clifford Butler in Manchester reported the first photographs of forked tracks (later called 'V particles') [10]. As Rochester later recollected [11], 'After the early discoveries that promised so much, there followed several frustrating years, a period of strain for Butler and myself, when no further examples of the V particles were found.' It was happily ended by a letter from Carl Anderson to Patrick Blackett, dated 28 November 1949, which said, 'Rochester and Butler may be glad to hear that we have about 30 cases of forked tracks similar to those they described in their article in Nature about two years ago, and so far as we can see now their interpretation of these events as caused by new unstable particles seems to be borne out by our experiments' [11].…”

Studying in-medium hadron properties with HADES

“…In December 1947 George Rochester and Clifford Butler in Manchester reported the first photographs of forked tracks (later called "V particles") [6]. As Rochester later recollected [7]: "After the early discoveries that promised so much, there followed several frustrating years, a period of strain for Butler and myself, when no further examples of the V particles were found." It was happily ended by a letter from Carl D. Anderson to Patrick Blackett, dated 28 November 1949: "Rochester and Butler may be glad to hear that we have about 30 cases of forked tracks similar to those they described in their article in Nature about two years ago, and so far as we can see now their interpretation of these events as caused by new unstable particles seems to be borne out by our experiments."…”

“…It was happily ended by a letter from Carl D. Anderson to Patrick Blackett, dated 28 November 1949: "Rochester and Butler may be glad to hear that we have about 30 cases of forked tracks similar to those they described in their article in Nature about two years ago, and so far as we can see now their interpretation of these events as caused by new unstable particles seems to be borne out by our experiments." [7].…”