New Laboratories at Argonne

Construction is expected to begin next April on a new high‐energy physics building at Argonne National Laboratory. Located on a site adjacent to the zero gradient synchrotron, the structure will provide laboratory and office space for more than 400 scientists, most of whom will be engaged in work involving the ZGS. Members of Argonne’s High‐Energy Physics Division and about 135 visiting university professors and students will share the space. Among the features of the new facility will be electronics laboratories, chemistry laboratories, shops, darkrooms, data‐processing rooms, a lecture hall, and a library. Approximately $\text{10\hspace{0.17em}000\hspace{0.17em}}{\mathrm{ft}}^2$ of space will be used for assembly and testing of experimental arrangements before they are erected in the experimental area of the ZGS itself. Completion of the $6.9 million edifice is expected in August, 1963. Argonne’s ZGS, a 12.5‐Bev proton synchrotron which has been under construction since June, 1959, is expected to provide a considerably higher circulating beam intensity than can be achieved with any other existing multi‐billion‐volt machine. It is scheduled for completion next year.