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CERN SPS now running as 540‐GeV p̄p collider

FEB 01, 1982

The CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) has begun producing ultra‐high‐energy physics results in its new role as a proton–antiproton colliding‐beam accelerator. At the 2nd Topical Workshop on Forward Collider Physics, held in December at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), two CERN collaborations reported their early data on p̄p collisions at a center‐of‐mass energy of 540 GeV.

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