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Last spring, Harvard and the AEC clashed over the administration of a $5 million a year grant for the operation of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. The University contested the AEC's right to veto the employment application of any alien and to control all information released by the CEA to Soviet bloc scientists...
...describe particles. The reasoning that supports the eightfold way is advanced quantum mechanics and beyond the understanding of the mathematically unanointed, but one of the predictions of the "way" was clear enough: a particle must exist that has a negative electric charge and a mass- of 1,676 million electron volts. It should have a life span of one ten-billionth of a second after it is formed, and then decay into a xi particle and a pi-meson...
Omega-Minus Signature. The unknown particle predicted by the eightfold way was named omega minus, and both CERN Laboratory in Geneva and Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island started elaborate campaigns to find it. Brookhaven's apparatus was built around the 33-bev (billion electron volt) Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, and it used a line of magnets and electrostatic separators 400 ft. long to isolate negative K-mesons. Ten of the K-mesons were allowed to enter Brookhaven's 80-in. liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber every 2½ seconds, and pictures were taken of the results. Two pictures...
...Since mass is equivalent to energy, theoretical physicists like to measure the mass of a particle in electron volts. The mass of one electron at rest is .511 million electron volts...
...Typist. Bush, for example, is forced to teach medical students with equipment that is 20 to 40 years out of date. He could have received a grant to buy a new electron microscope, he said, but he could not get the money to remodel a room with soundproofing and wiring for the delicate instrument. Lesser irritations are also common. Owing to a shortage of secretaries and typewriters, Bush often had to type his own letters...