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Life-time of the Mesotron

Nature volume 144, page 667 (1939)Cite this article

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IN a recent note1, Prof. P. M. S. Blackett seeks to link quantitatively the observed life-time of the mesotron to other constants of Nature. I should like to propose what seems to me a simple and direct deduction of this quantity by relating it to the theory of the nature of the mesotron which I recently advanced2.

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  1. NATURE, 144, 30, (1939).

  2. Phys. Rev., 53, 606, (1938).

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    IRA M. FREEMAN

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FREEMAN, I. Life-time of the Mesotron. Nature 144, 667 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144667b0

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