MURA and the AEC

The Atomic Energy Commission has decided not to construct the 12.5‐BeV high‐intensity accelerator proposed by the Midwestern Universities Research Association. As a consequence, the AEC has announced, the work of MURA scientists will be reoriented toward the design of a 600‐ to 1000‐BeV proton accelerator. The MURA group, now located at Stoughton, Wise, will be joined in this effort by scientists from Argonne National Laboratory. After a transition period, the project will be centered at Argonne. Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where design studies for such a machine are already in progress, will also participate. According to the same announcement, the AEC is also supporting design studies at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory for a 200‐BeV proton accelerator.

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