Jack Steinberger: Memories of the PS and of LEP

摘要

The CERN PS (Proton Synchrotron), which started in 1959, and the Brookhaven AGS (Alternating Gradient Synchrotron) in 1960, represented an advance by a factor of more than five in the energy of proton accelerators, from the 5 GeV of the Berkele Bevatron to about 30 GeV. These accelerators made possible the large progress in our understanding of particles and their interactions over the next two decades, culminating in the electroweak and QCD gauge theories.