August 1, 2009

45 Years of "charm"

On August 1, 1964, Sheldon Glashow and James Bjorken published a paper in Physics Letters in which they coined the term "charm" for a theoretical new particle, the charm quark. The paper is cited more than 550 times in the SPIRES-HEP database.

By Laura O'Hara, Assistant Archivist