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SLAC proposes to boost energy above 50 GeV without superconductors

OCT 01, 1971

The plan to fit Stanford’s 20‐GeV electron linac with superconducting cavities has been dropped, and a new proposal to upgrade performance has been submitted to the AEC. SLAC director Wolfgang Panofsky told us that at present a complete conversion to superconducting cavities would be noncompetitive, both in terms of time and money.

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