The Princeton Pennsylvania Accelerator
AUG 01, 1964
The Princeton‐Pennsylvania Accelerator, located on the Forrestal Research Campus of Princeton University, was formally dedicated on December 7, 1963. Among those taking part in the ceremony were Glenn T. Seaborg, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Gaylord P. Harnwell, president of the University of Pennsylvania, R. F. Goheen, president of Princeton University, Henry DeWolf Smyth, chairman of Princeton’s Research Board and currently US representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Milton G. White, director of the accelerator project and author of the following article.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3051738
The Princeton‐Pennsylvania Accelerator is a 3‐billion‐electron‐volt proton synchrotron which is unique amongst large proton accelerators in that the pulse rate of 19 cycles per second is nearly 100 times higher than that usually used. Though the machine is still being tuned up, an intensity of
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Milton G. White, Forrestal Research Campus of Princeton University.
© 1964 American Institute of Physics
