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| Title | Jefferson Lab's 1985 Switch to Superconducting Accelerator Technology |
| Authors | Catherine Westfall |
| JLAB number | CEBAF-PR-96-29 |
| LANL number | (None) |
| Other number | (None) |
| Document Type(s) | (Journal Article) |
| Associated with EIC: | No |
| Supported by Jefferson Lab LDRD Funding: | No |
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| Publication Abstract: | One of the most surprising turns in the history of accelerators came in 1985. After a six-year battle to gain approval to build a linear accelerator with a pulse stretcher ring (PSR), researchers at CEBAF, the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (renamed Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in 1996) announced that they wanted instead to build an accelerator based on a risky new technology - superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) technology. Perhaps even more surprising, the Department of Energy (DOE) decided to approve the change. This paper explains how Hermann A. Grunder, CEBAF's first permanent director, made the decision to build an SRF accelerator, how he persuaded physicists and DOE officials to approve the change, and how he mobilized his staff to build this state-of-the-art machine. |
| Experiment Numbers: | other |
| Group: | Directorate |
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