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I review the origin of AdA, the first electron-positron collider at Frascati, Italy, in the early 1960s. I describe the problems that were tackled to produce the positron beam, the vacuum, and the injection system that were necessary to observe the electron-positron beam-beam collisions. Accidents and incidents occurred, such as the unpredicted “Touschek effect,” and were surmounted. I discuss the roles of the physicists involved in this work and the state of physics at the time, and I sketch subsequent work on larger collider rings. My recollections are based on the original literature and unpublished documents, photographs, and drawings.
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Bernardini, C. AdA:The First Electron-Positron Collider. Phys. perspect. 6, 156–183 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-003-0202-y
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- Edoardo Amaldi
- Fernando Amman
- Gilberto Bernardini
- Henri Bruck
- Gianfranco Corazza
- Giorgio Ghigo
- Jacques Haïssinski
- Pierre Marin
- Enrico Persico
- Giorgio Salvini
- Albert Silverman
- Bruno Touschek
- Cerenkov counter
- Frascati National Laboratories
- Orsay Laboratory
- Touschek effect
- electron synchrotron
- electron linac
- electron-positron collider
- electron-positron storage ring
- beam luminosity
- beam lifetime