Word: rubbia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discovery, however, was not totally unexpected. "It just didn't pop out of the garden," said Rubbia, who was contacted in Geneva earlier this week...
...tests--conducted at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, where Rubbia is researching for the summer--consist of aiming a beam of protons accelerated to an energy of 270 billion volts around a four-mile ring and into beam of anti-protons flying in the opposite direction with the same energy...
...Rubbia developed this particular proton collision method and has been working with it since the late 1970s...
After improvements to the performance of the accelerator, a new, 15-month series of tests are scheduled to begin this fall, which Rubbia said he expects will lead to further support of the quark finding...
According to Rubbia, the project was initially snubbed by government officials as well as Harvard scientists as improbable and faced great difficulty acquiring research funding...