Fermilab : physics, the frontier, and megascience /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoddeson, Lillian
Otros Autores: Kolb, Adrienne W., Westfall, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory > History.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Particle accelerators > Research > United States.
Particles (Nuclear physics) > Research > United States.
Accélérateurs de particules > Recherche > États-Unis.
Particules (Physique nucléaire) > Recherche > États-Unis.
SCIENCE > Physics > Nuclear.
SCIENCE > Physics > Atomic & Molecular.
Particle accelerators > Research
Particles (Nuclear physics) > Research
United States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The call of the frontier
  • An American dream
  • The several hundred GeV accelerator, 1959-1963
  • The Berkeley design, 1963-1965
  • Midwest passage, 1965-1967
  • A new frontier on the Illinois prairie
  • Wilson's vision
  • Constructing the ring, 1968-1972
  • A user's paradise, 1968-1978
  • Beyond the horizon : the energy doubler, 1967-1978
  • The road to megascience
  • Lederman's vision
  • Completing the doubler, 1978-1984
  • Bigger science : experiment strings, 1970-1988
  • Megascience realized : colliding beams, 1967-1989
  • The super collider affair
  • Epilogue: Light on the horizon, 1989-1995
  • Authors' statements and other acknowledgements
  • Appendix: Fermilab experiments, 1970-1992.

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