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Students at Stanford University are seething over a proposal advanced earlier this year by the federal government to involve the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) in research on the production of nuclear weapons and X-ray lasers...
...letter released last month, the Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) announced that the research facility will "cooperate fully" with a controversial proposal that would aid in the research of nuclear weapons at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) if the proposal is accepted by SSRL's director...
...elsewhere began designing new machines, Rubbia, who divides his time between Harvard and CERN, the French acronym for the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research, decided that there must be an easier, cheaper way. He persuaded CERN to let him modify its major accelerator, the Super Proton Synchrotron, to achieve higher energies. Instead of sending nuclear bullets, protons, barreling into a fixed target, the four-mile circular atomic race track was redesigned so that two sets of bullets-protons and their antimatter opposites, antiprotons-raced around it in opposite directions. At two junctures their paths intersected, producing collisions...
Arnold is convinced that his scheme is entirely feasible. As a demonstration, he reports in Science, he recently set up two detectors near Argonne's 12 billion-electron-volt proton synchrotron. Then he periodically inserted a small block of brass in the path of a beam of particles from the accelerator. The effect was predictable: whenever the metal was in the way, it slightly weakened but did not block the flow of muons to the detectors 160 yds. away. Arnold had in effect devised a simple Morse telegraph system. By appropriately timing the intervals during which the metal...
Radiation. At present the only method man has for producing muon beams of message-carrying strength is to use expensive atom smashers. But Arnold contends that less costly machines designed specifically to make muons could be built in the near future. According to his estimate, a 100 billion-volt synchrotron, capable of producing a muon beam with a range of up to 600 miles, would cost about $10 million. That is roughly the price of a system of microwave towers covering a comparable distance. Furthermore, Arnold says, there might actually be a savings if muon beams were used to take...