British Accelerators Planned

England’s National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science, which was created in 1957 as an independent agency responsible for constructing and operating costly high‐energy research equipment to be used by nuclear scientists from British universities, has been authorized to establish a new high‐energy research laboratory equipped with an electron synchrotron similar in design to that of the Cambridge electron accelerator operated by Harvard and MIT. The laboratory will be located in northern England where it will be within easy reach of the high‐energy physics groups at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow. The synchrotron will provide a beam of 4‐BeV electrons. As a research tool, it will complement the National Institute’s other high‐energy machine, the 7‐BeV proton synchrotron at the Rutherford Laboratory near Harwell. The new laboratory will be headed by A. W. Merrison, who will be on leave from the University of Liverpool for a five‐year period while serving as director of the high‐energy installation.