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Several years ago, two groups of experimental physicists
working at DESY reported an unexpected increase in
the number of events found in very high energy experiments [1,2].
The letters AB are the initials of the first authors of
these reports. These letters are
used below to denote the results of these experiments.
Now, if the AB results are confirmed then they indicate
that in cases of higher energy, a new factor becomes
active in the scattering process.
The regular charge-monopole theory can provide an interpretation
to the effect reported by AB. This interpretation relied
on the strong evidence indicating the existence of a
baryonic core that contains closed shells of quarks. For
a discussion of this issue
Click here
and see also references linked therein.
In this case, one
expects to find a quark effect which resembles
the Franck-Hertz experiment. Here quarks belonging to inner
closed shells enter the interaction only in cases where
the projectile has enough
energy.
The issue discussed here is just one reason for waiting
to see the results of the new LHC machine which is now
under construction at CERN. For reading a paper diacussing this
subject
Click here.
For reading a further discussion of this issue and related
topics, as well as two LHC predictions
Click here.
References:
[1] C. Adloff et al., Z. Phys C74, 191 (1997).
[2] J. Breitweg et al., Z. Phys C74, 207 (1997).
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