Rafael Armenteros

Rafael Armenteros (1922–2004) was a Spanish particle physicist, who was one of the leading figures in CERN's various bubble chamber experiments. He is best known for the method he co-devised with J. Podolansky in 1953–1954. This technique is used in the analysis of the dynamics of two-body V decays and the relevant representation of data is known as an Armenteros-Podolansky plot. These plots were among the first few public results from the LHC experiments, since
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