Fermilab : Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience /

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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, has stood at the frontier of high-energy physics for forty years. Fermilab is the first history of this laboratory and of its powerful accelerators told from the point of view of the people who built and used them for...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Hoddeson, Lillian (Autor), Kolb, Adrienne W. (Autor), Westfall, Catherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
Temas:
Particle accelerators > Research > United States.
Particles (Nuclear physics) > Research > United States.
Technology & Engineering / General.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Call of the Frontier
  • PART ONE. An American Dream
  • 2. The Several Hundred GeV Accelerator, 1959-1963
  • 3. The Berkeley Design, 1963-1965
  • 4. Midwest Passage, 1965-1967
  • PART TWO. A New Frontier on the Illinois Prairie
  • 5. Wilson's Vision
  • 6.Constructing the Ring, 1968-1972
  • 7. A Users' Paradise, 1968-1978
  • 8. Beyond the Horizon: The Energy Doubler, 1967-1978
  • PART THREE. The Road to Megascience
  • 9. Lederman's Vision
  • 10. Completing the Doubler, 1978-1984
  • 11. Bigger Science: Experiment Strings, 1970-1988
  • 12. Megascience Realized: Colliding Beams, 1967-1989
  • 13. The Super Collider Affair
  • Epilogue: Light on the Horizon, 1989-1995
  • Authors' Statements and Other Acknowledgements
  • Appendix: Fermilab Approved Experiments, 1970-1992
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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