Progress at Stanford’s superconducting linac
MAR 01, 1972
DOI: 10.1063/1.3070768
During the past year many problems connected with development of the superconducting linear accelerator at Stanford have been resolved, according to Alan Schwettman and William Fairbank of Stanford’s High‐Energy Physics Laboratory. When we recently visited the laboratory, the two men told us that in the past year they had demonstrated that an intense continuous electron beam can be produced in a superconducting accelerator with exceptional stability and energy resolution. But a critical problem remains—achieving the high energy gradients of 4 MeV/ft hoped for in the superconducting structures.
© 1972. American Institute of Physics
