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Scientists encouraging a beam in 27-in. cyclotron

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96602529

Title

Scientists encouraging a beam in 27-in. cyclotron

Description

F. Kurie, Donald Cooksey, Edward McMillan, Ernest O. Lawrence, and R. Thornton encouraging a beam in the 27-inch cyclotron. Lawrence, Livingston and Sloan labored to produce a beam between the poles of their 75 ton magnet. The sheet metal tanks that held the cooling oil leaked. "We all wore paper hats," Livingston recalls, "to keep the oil out of our hair." Experimentation with shimming gradually brought the beam to larger radii and energies; two symmetric dees were installed; and in December the new 27-inch cyclotron produced 4.8 MeV hydrogen ions. (The preceding information was excerpted from the text of the Fall 1981 issue of LBL Newsmagazine.)

Citation Caption

LBL NEWS Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1981, p. 16 | From left to right, F. Kurie, D. Cooksey, E. McMillan, Lawrence, and R. Thornton encouraging a beam in the 27-inch cyclotron.

Date

1958

People

F. Kurie, Donald Cooksey, Edward McMillan, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, R. Thornton

Equipment

the 27-inch cyclotron

TEID Doc ID

XBD 9606-02529.TIF