Fermilab physics, the frontier, and megascience /

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Autore principale: Hoddeson, Lillian
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Altri autori: Kolb, Adrienne W., Westfall, Catherine
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Sommario:
  • 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.