Personal History Of Cesr And Cleo, A: The Cornell Electron Storage Ring And Its Main Particle Detector Facility

by Karl Berkelman

Overview

This invaluable book is a historical account of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring and its main detector facility, CLEO, from their beginnings in the late 1970's until the end of data collection at particle energies above the threshold for B meson production in June 2001. The CESR electron-positron collider was the culmination of a series of electron accelerators constructed at the Cornell Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, starting in 1945. Measurement of the products of the e+e- collisions was performed with the multipurpose CLEO apparatus, built and operated by the CLEO collaboration, which consisted of about 200 faculty, staff and graduate students from over 20 universities. This account is based mainly on the author's recollections as a participant.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789812386977
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/27/2004
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	v
1.	The Rise of Accelerators	1
2.	Synchrotrons and More Synchrotrons, up to 1975	5
3.	The CESR Proposal, 1974-1977	15
4.	The CLEO Proposal, 1975-1977	21
5.	Approval and Construction, 1977-1979	25
6.	First Data, 1979-1980	31
7.	The CESR-II Blind Alley, 1980-1983	39
8.	The CLEO-1 Years, 1981-1988	43
9.	Improving CESR, 1981-1988	51
10.	The First Upgrade, CLEO-1.5, 1984-1989	55
11.	CLEO-2, CESR and CHESS Upgrades, 1985-1989	63
12.	The CLEO-2 Years, 1989-1995	69
13.	The CESR B Factory Proposal, 1989-1993	81
14.	CESR and CLEO Phase II Upgrade, 1990-1995	87
15.	The CLEO-2.5 Years, 1995-1999	95
16.	Building CLEO-3, 1996-2000	99
17.	Phase III CESR Upgrade, 1996-2001	105
18.	The Money	111
19.	A New Director and a New Direction, 2000-...	115
20.	Concluding Remarks	119
21.	Glossary	123
22.	Appendix	129
	References	147
	Index	149