Raoul Gatto and Bruno Touschek's joint legacy in the rise of electron-positron physics

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Main Authors: Bonolis, Luisa, Buccella, Franco, Pancheri, Giulia
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author Bonolis, Luisa
Buccella, Franco
Pancheri, Giulia
author_facet Bonolis, Luisa
Buccella, Franco
Pancheri, Giulia
contents Raoul Gatto and Bruno Touschek's collaboration in the establishment of electron positron colliders as a fundamental discovery tool in particle physics will be illustrated. In particular, we will tell the little-known story of how Gatto and Touschek's pioneering vision combined to provide the theoretical foundations for AdA, the first matter-antimatter collider, and how their friendship with Wolfgang Pauli and Gerhard Lüders was crucial to their understanding of the CPT theorem, the basis for AdA's success. We will see how these two exceptional scientists shaped physics between Rome and Frascati, from the proposal to build AdA and, soon after in 1961, the larger machine ADONE, to the discovery of the $J/Ψ$ particle in 1974. We will also highlight Gatto and Touschek's contribution in mentoring an extraordinary cohort of students and collaborators whose work contributed to the renaissance of Italian theoretical physics after the Second World War and to the establishment of the Standard Model of particle physics.
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spellingShingle Raoul Gatto and Bruno Touschek's joint legacy in the rise of electron-positron physics
Bonolis, Luisa
Buccella, Franco
Pancheri, Giulia
History and Philosophy of Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Raoul Gatto and Bruno Touschek's collaboration in the establishment of electron positron colliders as a fundamental discovery tool in particle physics will be illustrated. In particular, we will tell the little-known story of how Gatto and Touschek's pioneering vision combined to provide the theoretical foundations for AdA, the first matter-antimatter collider, and how their friendship with Wolfgang Pauli and Gerhard Lüders was crucial to their understanding of the CPT theorem, the basis for AdA's success. We will see how these two exceptional scientists shaped physics between Rome and Frascati, from the proposal to build AdA and, soon after in 1961, the larger machine ADONE, to the discovery of the $J/Ψ$ particle in 1974. We will also highlight Gatto and Touschek's contribution in mentoring an extraordinary cohort of students and collaborators whose work contributed to the renaissance of Italian theoretical physics after the Second World War and to the establishment of the Standard Model of particle physics.
title Raoul Gatto and Bruno Touschek's joint legacy in the rise of electron-positron physics
topic History and Philosophy of Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01293