Impressions of the sixth rochester conference on high energy nuclear physics

✍ Scribed by S.A. Wouthuysen

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1956
• Weight: 178 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0029-5582
• DOI: 10.1016/s0029-5582(56)80083-7

✦ Synopsis

The annual Rochester Conferences, the first of which was organized by the University of Rochester in the winter of 1950/51, have become in these five years a tradition, the yearly event in high energy physics par excellence.

The number of participants was this year higher than ever, namely about 200, including about 50 from outside the United States. This year's achievements seem, on the whole, to have been along lines already indicated during the foregoing conference. The main problems, and the theoretical approaches meant to deal with them, have not qualitatively changed, but progress has been made in the formal development of the theory. From the experimental side, one is struck more by the wealth of the results, the increasingaccuracy, than by startling new discoveries.

Attention was centered around the interactions amongst the "classical" particles of nuclear physics (protons, neutrons and pions) and around interactions involving the "new" particles (heavy mesons and hyperons). Interactions of electrons, p-mesons, and the electromagnetic field were mentioned only occasionally.