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LEPRINCE-RINGUET1, Powell and co-workers2, Rochester and Butler3 and others have found convincing evidence for the existence of mesons with different masses. It seems, therefore, appropriate to emphasize that these experimental facts, which are to my knowledge not yet satisfactorily explained by either of the current meson theories, can be accounted for by a theory I have proposed recently4. I have made an attempt here to solve the problem of elementary particles with the help of four-dimensional spaces. My theory involves that electrons, and similarly protons, may exist in instable ‘meso-states' as well as in their normal stable state. The theory provides one solution for the meso-state of the electron (meso-electron) and eighty-two solutions for the meso-protons.
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BARNÓTHY, J. Mesons of Different Masses. Nature 161, 681 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161681a0
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