In 1974 in experiments conducted at the Brookhaven National Laboratory
at Upton, Long Island, N.Y., Ting discovered a new subatomic particle
that he called the J-particle (now usually called the J/psi particle),
the first of a new class of very massive, long-lived mesons. The discovery
of this particle, which is thought to be composed of a charmed quark
and its antiquark, led to a significant expansion and refinement of
the quark model. For this discovery Ting was awarded the 1976 Nobel
Prize for Physics jointly with Burton Richter, who had made the same
discovery independently at almost the same time. At the time of the
award Ting was conducting research at the European Commission for Nuclear
Research (CERN) at Geneva.
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