Abstract.
This is the second part of a two-part article about ISABELLE, a colliding-beam accelerator conceived in 1971, officially approved in 1978, partially constructed, and terminated in 1983. I cover here the period from ISABELLE’s groundbreaking in 1978 to its termination in 1983. I treat the problems with ISABELLE’s superconducting magnets, the steps by which the problems became clear within the laboratory and to the outside, the initial failure of the laboratory administration to take forceful steps, conflicts with Fermilab, the alternate magnet projects, the repeated missing of openings that eventually used up the window of opportunity. I cover Robert Palmer’s successful creation of an alternate magnet that used Brookhaven’s existing tooling and techniques and provided (too late) a technical solution to the project’s problems, and the name change to the Colliding Beam Accelerator (CBA). I also discuss the failure of the machine to hold the physics community’s interest, and the project’s termination.
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Crease, R.P. Quenched! The ISABELLE Saga, II. Phys. perspect. 7, 404–452 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-005-0247-1
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Keywords.
- Leon Lederman
- Robert Palmer
- Nicholas Samios
- James Sanford
- George Vineyard
- Associated Universities
- Inc.
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Fermilab
- ISABELLE
- Colliding Beam Accelerator
- Superconducting Super Collider
- big science
- high-energy physics
- laboratory
- particle accelerator
- superconducting magnets