The Legacy of Cornell Accelerators

M. Tigner, D.G. Cassel
2015 Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science  
This is the story of a culture and its evolution and legacy. Beginning with the invention of the cyclotron at Berkeley, the path of further accelerator development at Cornell via the Los Alamos experience of the primary actors is described. The science done with the accelerators and on the accelerators and beams themselves is reviewed and brought up to the current time. The evolution of the user community and the sources of support for accelerators and science done with them are discussed at
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doi:10.1146/annurev-nucl-102014-021850 fatcat:mbjdrkkwjnbgpnjx2mqrnrms5i