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The CERN PS, which started in 1959, and the Brookhaven AGS in 1960, represented an advance by a factor of more than five in the energy of proton accelerators, from the 5 GeV of the Berkeley Bevatron to about 30 GeV. These accelerators made possible the large progress in our understanding of particles and their interactions over the next two decades, culminating in the electroweak and QCD gauge theories.
From the PS to the LHC; 50 years of Nobel memories in high energy physics. CERN Symposium, December 2009
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Steinberger, J. (2012). Memories of the PS and of LEP. In: Alvarez-Gaumé, L., Mangano, M., Tsesmelis, E. (eds) From the PS to the LHC - 50 Years of Nobel Memories in High-Energy Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30844-4_1
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