Fermilab
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Synopsis:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located in the western suburbs of
Chicago, has stood at the frontier of high-energy physics for nearly forty
years. Since 1972, when the laboratory’s original particle accelerator began
producing the world’s highest-energy protons for research, the
government-supported scientific facility has been home to numerous scientific
breakthroughs, including the discoveries of the top and bottom quarks.
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 scientific discovery.
Table Of Contents:
Introduction 1
1 The Call of the Frontier 9
Pt. 1 An American Dream 17
2 The Several Hundred GeV Accelerator, 1959-1963 19
3 The Berkeley Design, 1963-1965 39
4 Midwest Passage, 1965-1967 64
Pt. 2 A New Frontier on the Illinois Prairie 93
5 Wilson's Vision 95
6 Constructing the Ring, 1968-1972 127
7 A Users' Paradise, 1968-1978 157
8 Beyond the Horizon: The EnergyDoubler, 1967-1978 196
Pt. 3 The Road to Megascience 225
9 Lederman's Vision 227
10 Completing the Doubler, 1978-1984 246
11 Bigger Science: Experiment Strings, 1970-1988 262
12 Megascience Realized: Colliding Beams, 1967-1989 281
13 The Super Collider Affair 312
Epilogue: Light on the Horizon, 1989-1995 335
Authors' Statements and Other Acknowledgements 355
Appendix Fermilab Approved Experiments, 1970-1992 365
Notes 375
Bibliography 443
Index 471
Product Details:
* ISBN: 0226346234
* ISBN-13: 9780226346236
* Format: Hardcover, 512pp
* Publisher: University of Chicago Press
* Pub. Date: December 2008
