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Subcommittee Encourages U.S. to Join Canadian Kaon Factory

MAY 01, 1989

Since the mid‐1970s, “pion factories” in Vancouver, Los Alamos and Zurich have been providing medium‐energy experimenters in nuclear and elementary‐particle physics with π mesons in great profusion. These small accelerators generate high‐intensity beams of protons just energetic enough to make pions when they hit a fixed targe.

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