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Two recent publications1,2 have listed the most reliable experimental figures for the rest masses of the known subatomic particles, and it would appear that the changes in the individual masses of these particles can be explained very simply by postulating the ubiquitous existence of a small particle of mass equivalent to approximately 26 MeV. In this communication, I shall call this minute particle a “tamaid” (Welsh, tam-ed: “a small piece”). The neutral tamaid is given the symbol t0 and by analogy with baryons, mesons, and so on, the possibility of the existence of t± tamaids cannot be discounted.
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LEWIS, D. Relationships between the Masses of Subatomic Particles. Nature 216, 573–574 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216573a0
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