Testing theory by computing quark behavior. (quantum chromodynamics) (Brief Article)

Science News | May 22, 1993| | Copyright

It took nearly a year to do the calculations, but when the computer finally disgorged the numbers, physicists had for the first time extracted from theory predictions of the ratios of the masses of eight subatomic particles. These computed, theoretically derived ratios differ from experimentally observed values by less than 6 percent.

The results provide the strongest quantitative evidence yet that quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is correct, says Donald Weingarten of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Quantum chromodynamics equations ...

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