TASSO (Two Arm Spectrometer SOlenoid) was a

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at the PETRA

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at the German national laboratory DESY. The TASSO collaboration is best known for having discovered the gluon, the mediator of the strong interaction and carrier of the

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. Four TASSO scientists,

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Bjørn Wiik Bjørn Håvard Wiik (born 13 February 1957 in Bruvik, Norway; died 26 February 1999 in Hamburg, Germany) was a Norwegian elementary particle physicist, noted for his role on the experiment that produced the first experimental evidence for gluons ...

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and

Sau Lan Wu Sau Lan Wu ( Chinese: 吳秀蘭; born Hong Kong in the early 1940s) is a Chinese American particle physicist and the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She made important contributions towards ...

, were awarded the

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from the

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(EPS) in 1995. A special prize was also awarded to the TASSO collaboration, as well as the JADE, MARK J and

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collaborations, in recognition of their combined work on the gluon as the "definite existence (of the gluon) emerged gradually from the results of the TASSO collaboration and the other experiments working at PETRA, JADE, MARK J and PLUTO". TASSO took data from 1978 to 1986 and discovered the gluon in 1979.

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TASSO record
on INSPIRE-HEP {{DEFAULTSORT:Tasso Particle experiments Gluons

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