In:
Physics Today, AIP Publishing, Vol. 24, No. 5 ( 1971-05-01), p. 17-18
Abstract:
Every once in a while in discussions about quarks, you hear the old story that Millikan occasionally saw fractional charges while doing his oil-drop experiment. Now William Fairbank and Arthur Hebard at Stanford University are repeating the experiment, replacing the oil drop with a superconducting niobium ball. They hope to improve the chance of finding a fractional charge because the probability of finding such a charge is proportional to the mass of the sphere. Their sphere has a mass of 7×10−5 grams, in contrast to a typical Millikan oil drop of 3×10−11 grams.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0031-9228
,
1945-0699
Language:
English
Publisher:
AIP Publishing
Publication Date:
1971
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208863-0
