A personal history of CESR and CLEO : the Cornell Electron Storage Ring and its main particle detector facility.

ISBN:

9789812567246

9789812386977

9781281880727

Title:

A personal history of CESR and CLEO : the Cornell Electron Storage Ring and its main particle detector facility.

Author:

Berkelman, K. (Karl)

Personal Author:

Berkelman, K. (Karl)

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 151 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Contents:

The rise of accelerators -- Synchrotrons and more synchrotrons, up to 1975 -- The CESR proposal, 1974-1977 -- The CLEO proposal, 1975-1977 -- Approval and construction, 1977-1979 -- First data, 1979-1980 -- The CESR-II Blind Alley, 1980-1983 -- The CLEO-1 years, 1981-1988 -- Improving CESR, 1981-1988 -- The first upgrade, CLEO-1.5, 1984-1989 -- CLEO-2, CESR and CHESS upgrades, 1985-1989 -- The CLEO-2 years, 1989-1995 -- The CESR B Factory proposal, 1989-1993 -- CESR and CLEO Phase II upgrade, 1990-1995 -- The CLEO-2.5 years, 1995-1999 -- Building CLEO-3, 1996-2000 -- Phase III CESR upgrade, 1996-2001 -- The money -- A New director and a new direction, 2000- ... -- Concluding remarks -- Glossary -- Appendix.

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Subject Term:

Colliders (Nuclear physics) -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2004

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Summary

This invaluable book is a historical account of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring and its main detector facility, CLEO, from their beginnings in the late 1970's until the end of data collection at particle energies above the threshold for B meson production in June 2001. The CESR electron-positron collider was the culmination of a series of electron accelerators constructed at the Cornell Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, starting in 1945. Measurement of the products of the e+e- collisions was performed with the multipurpose CLEO apparatus, built and operated by the CLEO collaboration, which consisted of about 200 faculty, staff and graduate students from over 20 universities. This account is based mainly on the author's recollections as a participant.