Electron colliders at CERN

摘要

After I finished graduate school at MIT I wanted to try doing an experiment that particularly interested me. The then new 1-GeV linear accelerator at Stanford's High Energy Physics Laboratory was the place to do it. At that time there were two cultures in particle physics with little overlap. I call them electron people and proton people. The two groups were separate cultures back then, and to some extent remain so even today. CERN is one of the few big labs that have mixed them.