Authors’ Statements and Other Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acronyms and Abbreviations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Call of the Frontier 9
6. PART ONE. An American Dream
7. 2. The Several Hundred GeV Accelerator, 1959–1963 19
8. 3. The Berkeley Design, 1963–1965 39
9. 4. Midwest Passage, 1965–1967 64
10. PART TWO. A New Frontier on the Illinois Prairie
11. 5. Wilson’s Vision 95
12. 6.Constructing the Ring, 1968–1972 127
13. 7. A Users’ Paradise, 1968–1978 157
14. 8. Beyond the Horizon: The Energy Doubler, 1967–1978 196
15. PART THREE. The Road to Megascience
16. 9. Lederman’s Vision 227
17. 10. Completing the Doubler, 1978–1984 246
18. 11. Bigger Science: Experiment Strings, 1970–1988 262
19. 12. Megascience Realized: Colliding Beams, 1967–1989 281
20. 13. The Super Collider Affair 312
21. Epilogue: Light on the Horizon, 1989–1995 335
22. Authors’ Statements and Other Acknowledgements 355
23. Appendix: Fermilab Approved Experiments, 1970–1992 365
24. Notes 375
25. Bibliography 443
26. Index 471