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Tunnelling techniques hold key to prospects for giant accelerator.

Author(s) : MACILWAIN C.

Type of article: Article

Summary

Advances in microtunnelling and materials technology could revitalize plans dreamt up in the 1980s to build a vast accelerator ring up to 1,000 km in circumference in the United States, according to physicists at Fermilab (the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) outside Chicago. The first prototype of a short section of a magnet is now being built at Fermilab, which should spend USD 200,000 on the concept this year.

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  • Original title: Tunnelling techniques hold key to prospects for giant accelerator.
  • Record ID : 1997-2642
  • Languages: English
  • Source: Nature - vol. 385 - n. 6616
  • Publication date: 1997/02/06
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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