Thirty years after the discovery of the gluon, John Ellis gives a personal account of how theorists and experimentalist friends
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The discovery of the gluon – a research trip back to the 70s - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
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The discovery of the gluon – a research trip back to the 70s - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
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The discovery of the gluon – a research trip back to the 70s - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
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The discovery of the gluon – a research trip back to the 70s - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
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6 of the gluon fields are independent linear combinations of the simple gluon fields we enumerated G 1 = (rg + gr)/ 2 G 4 = (bg + gb)/ 2 G 6. - ppt download
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