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Cosmotron SOS

JUL 01, 1966
Physics Today

As final plans are laid for scaling down the Brookhaven Cosmotron for its ultimate demise, a search is under way to locate those sustaining funds that the Atomic Energy Commission, in its budget, had denied the venerable but still vigorous machine. Meanwhile nuclear‐structure physicists whose research directly depends on the 3‐BeV, 0.1‐μA facility are shaking up a storm of complaint and criticism, not the least of which is directed toward themselves and their own neglected opportunities.

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