Speaker
Dr
Brian Robson
(Australian National University (AU))
Description
The parity of pions will be discussed within the framework of the Generation Model [1] of particle physics and it will be shown that both the 1954 determination [2] of the parity of the charged pions and the 2008 determination [3] of the parity of the neutral pion are compatible with the mixed-parity nature of the pions predicted by a recent composite Generation Model [4]. The development of the Generation Model as an alternative to the Standard Model of particle physics will be discussed. It will be demonstrated how the Generation Model leads to a unified classification of leptons and quarks and how this makes feasible a composite model of the fundamental particles of the Standard Model. In particular it will be shown that the 1964 CP violating experiment of Christenson et al. [5] may be understood without CP violation.
[1] B.A. Robson, Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 11 (2002) 555; Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 13 (2004) 999.
[2] W. Chinowsky and J. Steinberger, Phys. Rev. 95 (1954) 1561.
[3] E. Abouzaid et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (2008) 182001.
[4] B.A. Robson, Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 20 (2011) 733.
[5] J.H. Christenson, J.W. Cronin, V.L. Fitch and R. Turlay, Phys. Rev. Lett. 13 (1964) 138.
Primary author
Dr
Brian Robson
(Australian National University (AU))
