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Experimenters build detectors for PEP turn‐on in 1979

JUN 01, 1978

Construction of the Positron–Electron Project at SLAC is in full swing, and the $78‐million facility is expected to operate in October 1979. PEP will have 18‐GeV positrons colliding with 18‐GeV electrons in six interaction regions.

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