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electron synchrotron to be displayed at Smithsonian

Image File

97502178

Title

electron synchrotron to be displayed at Smithsonian

Description

Dismantled accelerating chamber of Lawrence Radiation Laboratory's historic electron synchrotron is examined by Director Edwin McMillan (r.) and Rudy Johnson, of the Accelerator Study Group. When it went into operation in 1948, the electron synchrotron was the most powerful electron accelerator in the world, boosting elections to 340 MeV. The synchrotron was based on a revolution concept, called the theory of phase stability, which was advanced independently by LRL Director Edwin McMillan and V. Veksler, a Russian physicist, toward the end of World War II. Design of the synchrotron was started under Edwin McMillan's direction in 1945. It first yielded a beam on December 16, 1948. The synchrotron was involved in the first discovery of a particle by means of an accelerator. In 1950, experiments by Steinberger and Panofsky provided evidence for the neutral pi meson.The machine was shut down in 1960.

Citation Caption

Magnet, Vol.10, No.10, October1966

Date

1966

People

Ed McMillan and Rudy Johnson

TEID Doc ID

XBD9705-02178.TIF