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...usually high-speed electrons, down a long copper tube at experimental targets. Stanford University, for example, now has a two-mile-long atom-smashing model called SLAC (TIME, July 22). SLAC, which stands for Stanford Linear Accelerator, is just beginning its experimental program. Yet last week Stanford Physicist Alan Schwettman reported in Washington that a prototype of an improved and more advanced linear accelerator had been successfully tested on the Palo Alto campus...
...enable their experimental instrument to accelerate a continuous stream of electrons, Schwettman, Physicist William Fairbank and their associates lined the inner walls of their 5-ft. prototype with lead and surrounded the tube with an aluminum cylinder containing liquid helium cooled to -457° F.-about two degrees above absolute zero. At this temperature, the lead lining becomes a superconductor, losing practically afl of its heat-causing electrical resistance and allowing the continuous flow of high-energy electrons without overheating...
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