Fermilab : physics, the frontier, and megascience / Lillian Hoddeson, Adrienne W. Kolb, and Catherine Westfall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoddeson, Lillian.

Contributor:

Kolb, Adrienne W.

Westfall, Catherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory--History.

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Particle accelerators--Research--United States.

Particle accelerators.

Particles (Nuclear physics)--Research--United States.

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (515 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The call of the frontier

An American dream

The several hundred GeV accelerator, 1959-1963

The Berkeley design, 1963-1965

Midwest passage, 1965-1967

A new frontier on the Illinois prairie

Wilson's vision

Constructing the ring, 1968-1972

A user's paradise, 1968-1978

Beyond the horizon : the energy doubler, 1967-1978

The road to megascience

Lederman's vision

Completing the doubler, 1978-1984

Bigger science : experiment strings, 1970-1988

Megascience realized : colliding beams, 1967-1989

The super collider affair

Epilogue: Light on the horizon, 1989-1995

Authors' statements and other acknowledgements

Appendix: Fermilab experiments, 1970-1992.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-469) and index.

ISBN:

9786612239663

9781282239661

128223966X

9780226346250

0226346250

OCLC:

434595805