THE AMBARZUMIAN-IVANENKO HYPOTHESIS OF CREATION OF MASSIVE PARTICLES

AMBARZUMIAN, VICTOR (+) DIMITRI IWANENKO.

Les électrons inobservables et les rayons.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1930. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 190, No 9, Entire issues offered including the title page of tome 190. No backstrip. Pp. 582-84. [Entire issue: Pp. 539-900]

First printing of Ambarzumian and Iwanenko's landmark paper in which they first proposed the idea that in the course of interactions of elementary particles with nonzero rest masses, some of them might be created or annihilated. The idea proposed is regarded as being a cornerstone of contemporary quantum field theory. Higgs later applied some of Ambarzumian and Iwanenko's discoveries which eventually resulted in the discovery of the Higgs Boson, often referred to as the 'God Particle'.
The idea of the creation of particles with nonzero rest masses was absolutely new and did not follow from classical notions and is now a part of the Standard Model.

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