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Short Features in SLAC History
- 40th
- SLAC
celebrated its 40th Anniversary in 2002 with a
series of
events and a
photo book.
- APS
-
Burton Richter,
Sid Drell ,
Martin Perl
, and
Herman Winick made presentations at the American
Physical Society (APS) Centennial Celebration and
Meeting ( March 20-26 1999).
- Beam Trees
- Beam trees are not actually beams or trees.
- Blue Book
- The Blue Book is a SLAC classic written to
document for posterity the design and building of SLAC's two-mile accelerator.
Available in full-text
from the SLAC Library.
- Camp Fremont
- A World War I
training camp was located in Menlo Park and
included the SLAC site. (Annette Cords, The
Interaction Point, January 1992.)
- Church
- The first church
built in San Mateo County was on the SLAC site.
(Annette Cords, The Interaction Point, November
1991.)
- Cost
- SLAC's original cost (1962) was
$18,000,000 in preconstruction research and
development, and $114,000,000 for design and
construction.
- First Particle Physics Experiment
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The first particle physics experiment at SLAC used Beamline 1 in the
B
Target Room, where Martin Perl searched for new particles in 1966 and
1967. Over the following 15 years, a variety of experiments took advantage
of the target room's three beamlines and numerous targets that produced
secondary beams.
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- Golden Bolt
- On February 10, 1966, a ceremony was held at SLAC to
place the last bolt -- the "golden
bolt" -- in the two-mile-long accelerator,
making the underground device one physical unit for
the first time.
- Klystron Gallery - Length
- The SLAC Metrology Department confirms that the Klystron Gallery building
at SLAC is 3073.72 meters in length. (Read how it was measured in
SLAC-Pub-12761)
- Mark
- There is a whole family tree
of Mark equipment at
Stanford.
- November Revolution
- The November Revolution
in Physics occurred in 1974.
- Ohlone
- SLAC's
ancient neighbors
were the Ohlone.
(Annette Cords, The Interaction Point, October
1991.)
- Paleoparadoxia
- "An astonishingly
well-preserved fossil skeleton" of a rare
herbivorous marine mammal was
discovered at SLAC.
- Pief
- W. K. H. Panofsky was
SLAC's first Director.
- R Meter
- Ornate rate meter used at SPEAR.
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