Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics by Raghavan Jayakumar

Author:Raghavan Jayakumar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Middle America Stands Up

Meanwhile, the MURA group, having realized that it had lost their machine in the race anyway, decided to vie for locating the machine in the midwest. At this time, the Argonne National Lab’s 12.5 GeV machine had been overshadowed by the AGS. Bernard Waldman, the MURA Director, and Elvis Stahr, President of Indiana University, stirred up the debate and used phrases such as “step child” and “Midwest does not get a fair shake,” etc. Midwestern politicians, such as Minnesota’s future US Vice President Hubert Humphrey, joined the fray, emphasizing the importance of these projects to their region. While the MURA was pressing on the Fixed Field Alternating Gradient machine and the community was not impressed with the value of this machine, the midwest was in for a pleasant outcome.

The regional scientific war which the New York Times called the “toughest ever fought for a federally sponsored installation,” was transformed when the campaign for a TNL was merged with alliance of politicians and MURA, and when a more national Universities Research Association (URA) was formed with 34 leading University members. The “war” was won by the URA and a new laboratory, National Accelerator Laboratory (NAL), now named Fermi National Accelerator laboratory, was approved in Weston, Illinois.

Fig. 7.14(Fermi) National Accelerator Lab Main Ring (Courtesy: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

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