Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics

AbstractParticle accelerators were originally developed for research in nuclear and high-energy physics for probing the structure of matter. Over the years advances in technology have allowed higher and higher particle energies to be attained thus providing an ever more microscopic probe for understanding elementary particles and their interactions. To achieve maximum benefit from such accelerators, measuring and controlling the parameters of the accelerated particles is essential. This is the subject of this book.

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Thomas Gerald Pickavance, 19 October 1915 - 12 November 1991

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ◽

10.1098/rsbm.1994.0018 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 39 ◽

pp. 303-323

Keyword(s):

Nuclear Physics ◽

Major Part ◽

High Energy Physics ◽

Science Research ◽

High Energy ◽

First Year ◽

Proton Synchrotron ◽

Particle Accelerators ◽

Research Facilities ◽

Energy Physics

Thomas Gerald Pickavance was a leading authority on the design of particle accelerators for high-energy physics and was responsible for the construction of the most powerful accelerator built in this country, at the Rutherford Laboratory of which he was Director. He is chiefly remembered for the skilful, unselfish and unsparing way he made research facilities available for his fellow nuclear physicists and helped them to solve the problems of using large accelerators away from their universities. While Director for Nuclear Physics at the Science Research Council he played a major part in ensuring that the 300 GeV proton synchrotron at CERN was supported by this country and thus made available for the continued pursuit of high-energy physics here. He was elected to the Fellowship in the first year of his Suspension.

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A Man for All Seasons: Robert R. Wilson

Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology ◽

10.1142/s1793626809000259 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 02 (01) ◽

pp. 303-312 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Edwin L. Goldwasser

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

High Energy Physics ◽

High Energy ◽

Particle Accelerators ◽

Wide Range ◽

Founding Director ◽

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ◽

Accelerator Design ◽

Energy Physics ◽

Design Construction

Robert R. Wilson was the brilliant designer, builder and founding director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with its series of high-energy physics particle accelerators providing collision energies of 200, 400 and 2,000 GeV, the most powerful facilities in their class over a period of 40 years. He undertook the "impossible" and succeeded. With untrammeled courage he challenged the establishment as he bypassed many conventional practices in accelerator design, construction and cost control. With his remarkable talents he addressed a wide range of important aspects of the relationships of art and science, elegance and efficiency and physics and society. In doing so he always found ways for his pursuit of science to support his strong advocacy for human rights, international collaboration and democracy.

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