Evidence of a Quark in a High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Bubble-Chamber Picture

Abstract

We have found a bubble-chamber picture which shows three contemporaneous high-energy cosmic-ray tracks. One of the tracks has ionization which is that expected of a charge-$\frac{2}{3}$ particle if the mass of this particle is less than 6.5 GeV. The observed ionization is also consistent with that which is expected of a charge-$\frac{1}{3}$ particle with a mass of 8.0\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}3.0 GeV.