Comments:
Picture from CERN 2-metre hydrogen bubble chamber exposed to a beam of
negative kaons (K-) with energy 4.2 GeV.
This piece corresponds to about 70 cm in the bubble chamber.
Knock-on spiralling electrons show that negative particles curve to the
right.
This picture provides a simple example of a set of beam particles traveling
along parallel paths without interacting with a target proton - an empty
picture as far as hadron physics is concerned!
The knock-on electron spiral is a spectacular side-show.
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