Maglich participated in the discovery of the omega meson, as described in Alvarez's Nobel Lecture:
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The bosons which mediate the nuclear force are three types of mesons : pions, rho mesons and omega mesons.
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The fact that the 1 } } rho meson ( & rho; ) and 0 } } omega meson ( & omega; ) have nearly equal mass centered on 770, while the phi meson ( & phi; ) has a higher mass around, indicates that the light-quark vector mesons appear in nearly pure states with the & phi; meson having a nearly 100 percent amplitude of hidden strangeness.