Open AccessAntinucleons
Author(s) -
E. Segrè
Publication year - 1958
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/915467
Subject(s) - antiparticle , electron , physics , positron , dirac (video compression format) , charge (physics) , dirac equation , theoretical physics , mathematical physics , quantum mechanics , lepton , neutrino
The idea of ''antiparticles'', as is well known, originated with Dirac, who in establishing the relativistic equations for the electron noted that besides the solutions corresponding to ordinary electrons there were also ''unwanted solutions'' corresponding to particles of electronic mass but of charge +e instead of the electronic charge - e. The discovery of the positron by CD Anderson offered a brilliant experimental confirmation of Dirac's prediction and gave the first example of an ''antiparticle.'