The 10‐GeV synchrotron at Cornell

OCT 01, 1968

A new electron accelerator, to be dedicated this month, continues the tradition at Cornell University. Elementary‐particle research, including tests of quantum electrodynamics in electromagnetic interactions and studies of the vector‐meson family, will benefit.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3034533

Boyce D. McDaniel

Albert Silverman

ON 10 OCTOBER Cornell University and the National Science Foundation will join in the dedication of the Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory and its associated facilities. This laboratory houses the 10‐GeV election synchrotron, the fourth in a series of electron accelerators built and used by physicists at Cornell under the inspiration and leadership of Robert R. Wilson for whom the new laboratory is named. The new machine was conceived in August 1962; in March 1965, after two and a half years of design study and finance negotiations, a construction contract was signed. Two years later a beam circulated in the machine and in March 1968 we obtained full energy of 10 GeV. This is the highest energy yet attained in any electron synchrotron. The experimental‐physics program utilizing the accelerator started in November 1967, at which time the synchrotron was already operating at an energy of 7 GeV.

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Boyce D. McDaniel. Cornell's Laboratory of Nuclear Studies.

Albert Silverman. Cornell University.