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Mark

Who is this Mark fellow, and why does he have so much equipment? There are two branches on the Mark family tree at Stanford University. Mark is the name that has been given to several generations of both accelerators and detectors created and used at HEPL and here at SLAC.  The accelerators were all built on campus at HEPL, and were progenitors of the two-mile accelerator that was built at SLAC. The detectors have all (so far) been built at SLAC. 

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Accelerators

Mark I 1947 Electrons first successfully accelerated using a waveguide accelerator
Mark II 1949 First successful operation
Mark III 1949 Construction begins
  1950 First successful operation
  1963-64 Disassembled and re-built with new accelerator sections
Mark IV 1954 Support received from AEC to build as a test-bed for the two-mile accelerator
  1964 Dismantled
 

For more detail on Mark and other Stanford accelerators, see the "Linear Accelerators Constructed at Stanford," table from Mary Clarke's inventory of Edward Ginzton's papers held by the Stanford University Archives.

Detectors

Mark I 1973  Installed at SPEAR
  1977 Dismantled and removed from SPEAR
Mark II 1977 Installed at SPEAR
  1979 Moved to PEP at beginning of PEP program
  1982 Selected to be first detector at SLC
  1985 Upgraded and returned to PEP for testing
  1986 Installed in CEH
  1987 Rolled onto the SLC beamline
  1990 Moved off the SLC beamline to the east end of the Collider Hall
Mark III 1978 Work begun on detector
  1980 Checkout of detector at SPEAR: SLAC-SP-031; (proposal)
  1981 Installed at SPEAR: SLAC-SP-032 experimental program initiated; (proposal)
  1988 Experimental program ends
  1998 Dismantling begun

Photos

Mark Family Photo Album

Gallery: Early Linacs (Symmetry; volume 02, issue 06; August 2005)

Publications

Search the inSPIRE HEP database by accelerator name, detector name or experiment number/name for related publications

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