Author: Publisher:
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Category : Nuclear physics
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Fermilab Report
Author: Fermilab
Author: Lillian HoddesonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226346250
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, has stood at the frontier of high-energy physics for forty years. Fermilab is the first history of this laboratory and of its powerful accelerators told from the point of view of the people who built and used them for scientific discovery. Focusing on the first two decades of research at Fermilab, during the tenure of the laboratory’s charismatic first two directors, Robert R. Wilson and Leon M. Lederman, the book traces the rise of what they call “megascience,” the collaborative struggle to conduct large-scale international experiments in a climate of limited federal funding. In the midst of this new climate, Fermilab illuminates the growth of the modern research laboratory during the Cold War and captures the drama of human exploration at the cutting edge of science.
Fermilab Report
Author: ERDA Energy Research Abstracts
Author: United States. Energy Research and Development AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Physics Division Annual Report
Author: Argonne National Laboratory. Physics DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear physics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Environmental monitoring at major U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration contractor sites, calendar year 1976
Author: United States. Energy Research and Development Administration. Division of Operational and Environmental SafetyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Tunnel Visions
Author: Michael RiordanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022630583X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
“A detailed and engaging account of the development of the superconducting supercollider, one of the largest scientific undertakings in the United States.” —Journal of American History Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national security, they held this position for decades. In an effort to maintain their hegemony and track down the elusive Higgs boson, they convinced President Reagan and Congress to support construction of the multibillion-dollar Superconducting Super Collider project in Texas—the largest basic-science project ever attempted. But after the Cold War ended and the estimated SSC cost surpassed ten billion dollars, Congress terminated the project in October 1993. Drawing on extensive archival research, contemporaneous press accounts, and over one hundred interviews with scientists, engineers, government officials, and others involved, Tunnel Visions tells the riveting story of the aborted SSC project. The authors examine the complex, interrelated causes for its demise, including problems of large-project management, continuing cost overruns, and lack of foreign contributions. In doing so, they ask whether Big Science has become too large and expensive, including whether academic scientists and their government overseers can effectively manage such an enormous undertaking. “Focusing on the scientific, technical, and political conflicts that led to delays, ever rising costs, and eventually the SSC’s cancelation by Congress, Tunnel Visions is a true techno-thriller.” —Burton Richter, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics “Most good science stories are tales of discovery and success, but failure can be just as riveting. Here two historians and an archivist describe the greatest particle physics experiment that never was.” —Scientific American
Physics of Intensity Dependent Beam Instabilities
Author: King-Yuen NgPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9812563423
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of intensity dependent particle beam instabilities in accelerating rings. Written for researchers, the material is also suitable for use as a textbook in an advanced graduate course for students studying accelerator physics.The presentation starts with a brief review of the basic concept of wake potentials and coupling impedances in the vacuum chamber followed by a discussion on static and dynamic solutions of their effects on the particle beams. Special emphasis is placed separately on proton and electron machines. Other special topics of interest covered include Landau damping, Balakin-Novokhatsky-Smirnov damping, Sacherer's integral equations, Landau cavity, saw-tooth instability, Robinson stability criteria, beam loading, transition crossing, two-stream instabilities, and collective instability issues of isochronous rings. After the formulation of an instability, readers are provided a thorough description of one or more experimental observations together with a discussion of the cures for the instability.Although the book is theory oriented, the use of mathematics has been minimized. The presentation is intended to be rigorous and self-contained with nearly all the formulas and equations derived.
ERDA Research Abstracts
Author: United States. Energy Research and Development AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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