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Image File: 97502283
Title: Bevalac produces first beams, control room
Description: The clock reads 2:53 p.m., just after the carbon beam was accelerated to full energy for the first time, and already the champagne is out. In the Bevatron control room (standing from left) Frank Selph, Harvey Oakley, Ken Crebbin, Ferd Voelker, Bob Richter, and (seated) John Staples, Doug Bensten, Fred Lothrop, Ash Brown, and Jim Guggemos prepare for celebrating. The Bevalac began operation on August 1, 1974, and for a long time was the most powerful heavy ion accelerator in the world. In the Bevalac, the Bevatron was linked to the SuperHILAC linear accelerator. Nuclei began their journey in the SuperHILAC and then were passed through a transfer line to the Bevatron, where they were accelerated almost to the speed of light. With the later addition of an improved vacuum system and other modifications, the Bevalac became the only machine the world capable of accelerating all of the elements of the periodic table to relativistic energies. The Bevalac finally ceased operations on February 21, 1993. - JG
Citation Caption: Magnet, Vol.18, Nos.7-8, July-August 1974, p. 2
Date: 8/74
People: Frank Selph, Harvey Oakley, Ken Crebbin, Ferd Voelker, Bob Richter, John Staples, Doug Bentsen, Fred Lothrop, Ash Brown, Jim Guggemos
TEID Doc ID: XBD9705-02283.TIF