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Hundreds of feet beneath the ground outside the Swiss town of Meyrin, near Geneva, a six-year, $660 million construction project is rushing toward a payoff. Workers at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) have excavated a 12-ft.-wide circular tunnel that is 16 miles in circumference, installed nearly 5,000 powerful electromagnets, and put along the ring four massive detectors, each weighing several tons but sensitive to the passage of a single subatomic particle. This week, if all goes according to plan, technicians will begin test runs of the largest scientific instrument in the world...
...commuted between CERN and the Bohr Institute--or between Maria, the gorgeous blonde daughter of a German bassoonist, and Bonnie, my dark Danish damsel...
Long a dream of the American particle-physics community, an accelerator the size of the proposed SSC would be 20 times as powerful as any now existing. It would dwarf the major U.S. accelerators -- Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., and another at Stanford University -- and would surpass even Europe's CERN collider, near Geneva. Formally endorsed by Ronald Reagan last January, the project is what Energy Secretary John Herrington calls a "momentous leap forward" in the exploration of matter and energy...
...write his book, Taubes, a science writer forDiscover magazine, travelled to Geneva, whereRubbia was working in his laboratory at theEuropean Center for Nuclear Research (CERN...
...leading contenders were Rubbia and his colleagues, who had built a $20 million particle detector called UA1 to be used with the SPS accelerator, and a second team of physicists at CERN using a detector known as UA2. Rubbia drove the UA1 team unmercifully, Taubes writes, then unofficially spread the news of a discovery before performing the sort of rigorous analysis that would confirm it. This maneuver would effectively pre-empt any claim by the UA2 group, which was proceeding with a more careful proof before going public. Says Physicist Bernard Sadoulet, a member of the UA1 team...