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Image File: 97502159
Title: 340 mev synchrotron operation ends
Description: Synchrotron operation ends. During the final experiment, physicist-in-charge, Bob Kenney (right) stops in the synchrotron control room for a word with Rudy Johnson, engineer-in-charge. 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. - JG
Citation Caption: Magnet, Vol. 4, No. 2, February 1960, p. 3
Date: 1960
People: Bob Kenney, Rudy Johnson
TEID Doc ID: XBD9705-02159.TIF