CEBAF Readies Its Electron Beam for Studies of Nucleons and Nuclei
DOI: 10.1063/1.2809000
In April 1983 the Southeastern Universities Research Association won an intense competition for construction and operation of a continuouswave electron accelerator in the energy range 0.5–4.0 GeV designed for studies in high‐energy nuclear physics. Four years later Hermann Grunder, director of SURA’s proposed Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility at Newport News, Virginia, initiated a radical change in the design of the accelerator from one that would stretch a pulsed beam to one that used superconducting cavity technology, just then becoming viable for large‐scale applications, to create an intrinsically continuous beam. (See
