Piyare Jain

Professor Emeritus Piyare Jain is a particle physicist at University of Buffalo. On December 6 2006, he claimed discovery of the long-sought axion subatomic particle. [http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0954-3899/34/1/009 Search for new particles decaying into electron pairs of mass below 100 MeV/c2] , P.L. Jain and G. Singh, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, preprint 28 November 2006]

The discovery involved Jain's use of 3-dimensional photographic medium targets in heavy-ion particle accelerators; modern detectors using electronic sensors were unable to detect the axion due to the very short distances and times involved, but the physical medium was able to identify about 1,200 Axion traces over years of experiment. Professor Jain is one of the few currently working physicists with experience with that type of detector, which had been largely abandoned in favor of the modern electronic detectors.

External links

* [http://www.physorg.com/news84633896.html Physorg article on discovery]
* [http://www.physics.buffalo.edu/hepcos/PJain.html Piyare Jain's web page at University of Buffalo]
* [http://www.physics.buffalo.edu/people/research/jain.html Piyare Jain's research and CV]

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