25 YEARS OF MULTIPARTICLE DYNAMICS SYMPOSIA:Memories and Thoughts

摘要

In 1969 many people were dissatisfied with the lack of discussion about high multiplicity events and low transverse momentum physics even though more than 90% of events had low pj The major annual conferences concentrated on high pj where there were exciting results that could be interpreted — so it was reasonable. But the hard-to-interpret low pr results were being neglected. Thus a meeting was organised by a group, in particular R. Lestienne, A. Krzywicki, R. Salmeron, and R. Sosnowski, with encouragement from L. Van Hove (the influence of the strong group of Polish physicists in this subject was already noticeable). This first meeting was held in the old building of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. The first problem was the choice of title — finally "Multiparticle Dynamics" was chosen as it could mean anything you wanted — a wise choice as the subject has subtlety changed with the years.