The V-A theory is a concept in particle physics accounting for the maximal parity violation of the weak interaction.
History
edit- Fermi's four fermion interaction ansatz for beta decay.
- More generalised Gamov and Teller ansatz.
- First discovered by George Sudarshan in 1956, student of Robert Marshak at the time.
- First published in peer-reviewed journal by Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann.