Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2009 APS April Meeting
Volume 54, Number 4
Saturday–Tuesday, May 2–5, 2009; Denver, Colorado
Session T7: History of MURA, Fermilab and the SSC |
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Sponsoring Units: FHP DPB Chair: Gloria Lubkin, American Institute of Physics Room: Governor's Square 12 |
Monday, May 4, 2009 3:30PM - 4:06PM |
T7.00001: Innovation Was Not Enough; The History of the Midwestern Universities Research Association Invited Speaker: During the years 1953-1965, Donald Kerst assembled a bunch of young physicists to develop plans for a major particle accelerator in the Midwest. This MURA group was remarkably productive; they developed the FFAG concept, a comprehensive understanding of rf acceleration and beam stacking, colliding beams, and much more, plus the successful construction of electron models incorporating and testing these concepts. Although MURA never realized the large regional accelerator which was the objective of these activities, the group's innovations and developments marked a major chapter in the evolution of particle accelerators. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, May 4, 2009 4:06PM - 4:42PM |
T7.00002: Fermilab: The Ring of the Frontier, 1967-1989 Invited Speaker: Fermilab, the home of the highest energy hadron accelerator in the world, has been at the frontier of high energy physics for almost forty years. Between 1967, when the Lab was founded in a suburb of Chicago by Robert R. Wilson, Edwin L. Goldwasser, and Norman F. Ramsey, and 1989, the final year of Leon M. Lederman's administration, Fermilab was the premiere proton facility for experimental particle physics in the US. Wilson's era saw the construction and achievement of the 200-500 billion electron volts (BeV) Main Ring. Lederman led Fermilab into the next frontier with the superconducting Energy Doubler/Saver, renamed the Tevatron for its design energy of one trillion electron volts (TeV). In the 1980s-1990s, as construction of facilities became more complex and experiments grew larger and took a generation to complete, how could the costs be met without even more careful long-term planning and budgeting? Why did Fermilab's accelerator complex advance while others did not? What role, if any, did politics play? What can be learned from Fermilab's experience about maintaining US involvement at the forefront of 21st century particle physics research? [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, May 4, 2009 4:42PM - 5:18PM |
T7.00003: A Personal Recollection of the SSC Birth and Demise Invited Speaker: |
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