Test of Quantum Electrodynamics by Electron-Electron Scattering

Barber, William C.; Gittelman, B.; O'Neill, G.K.; Richter, B.

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“…Table III presents main parameters of the collider. [14,26,27]. The first one was a rather violent pressure rise due to the synchrotron light.…”

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Shiltsev

2016

Challenges and Goals for Accelerators in the XXI Century

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The idea of exploring collisions in the center-of-mass system to fully exploit the energy of the accelerated particles had been given serious consideration by the Norwegian engineer and inventor Rolf Wideröe, who had applied for a patent on the idea in 1943 (and got the patent in 1953 [1]) after considering the kinematic advantage of keeping the center of mass at rest to produce larger momentum transfers. Describing this advantage G.K.O'Neill, one of the collider pioneers, wrote in 1956 [2]: "…as accelerators of higher and higher energy are built, their usefulness is limited by the fact that the energy available for creating new particles is measured in the center-of-mass system of the target nucleon and the bombarding particle. In the relativistic limit, this energy rises only as the square root of the accelerator energy. However, if two particles of equal energy traveling in opposite directions could be made to collide, the available energy would be twice the whole energy of one particle..." Therefore, no kinetic energy is wasted by the motion of the center of mass of the system, and the available reaction energy ER = 2Ebeam (while a particle with the same energy Ebeam colliding with another particle of the mass m at rest produces only ER = (2Ebeam m) ½ in the extreme relativistic case.) One can also add that the colliders are "cleaner" machines with respect to the fixed target ones since the colliding beams do not interact with the target materials. The other advantage is that it is much easier to organize collisions of beams composed of matter-antimatter particles, like in electronpositron and proton-antiproton colliders.This idea was taken seriously and three teams started working on colliding beams in the late 1950's: a Princeton-Stanford group that included William C. Barber, Bernard Gittelman, Gerry O'Neill, and Burton Richter, who in 1959, following a suggestion of Gerry O'Neill in 1956, proposed to build a couple of tangent rings to study Møller scattering; Andrei Mikhailovich Budker initiated a somewhat similar project in Soviet Union, where electron-electron collider VEP-1 (Russian acronym for "Встречные Электронные Пучки-1" or "Colliding Electron Beams-1") was under construction in 1958; and Italian group at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati led by Bruno Touschek began design of the first electron-positron collider.

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“…Table III presents main parameters of the collider. [14,26,27]. The first one was a rather violent pressure rise due to the synchrotron light.…”

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“…First electron-electron collisions were detected in May 1964 [9] and in 1965 VEP-1 started providing the first experimental results [10,11]. The Princeton-Stanford electron-electron collider [12] announced obtaining the first electron-electron collisions in March 1965 [13] and the first interesting results were published in 1966 [14].…”

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“…By 1969 an electron-electron colliding-beam experiment had demonstrated the point-like nature of the electron (A 7 > 4 GeV, At > 6 GeV) [57], and e + e" storage rings were giving useful data on vector-meson production [58]. Experiments on e + e " and p.*ii~ pair production, on wide-angle bremsstrahlung, and on muon tridents, and a comparison of e-p and p-p scattering were all in accord with theory.…”

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THE MUON _g – 2 EXPERIMENTS

Farley

Picasso

1990

Advanced Series on Directions in High Energy Physics

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“…As an undergraduate student, I read that scientists on the West Coast were going to collide electron beams head-on, and they didn't know what would happen. How wonderful!to not know the answer in advance, but to devise instruments that make it possible to find out [1]. (To a young boy who knew next to nothing, it was much more intriguing to hear that "they don't know what will happen" than that they are going to test Quantum Electrodynamics.)…”

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Dream Machines

Quigg¹

2018

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Dedicated to the memory of Burton Richter-master of the craft and exemplary citizen-scientist Particle accelerators and their detectors are the world's most powerful microscopes. They enable us to inspect the constituents of matter at attometer scales, study matter under unusual conditions, and concentrate extraordinary amounts of energy into tiny volumes to create new forms of matter and initiate new phenomena. The progress of particle physics and of accelerator science and technology go hand in hand. I look to the past, present, and future, raising questions that we would like to answer about nature along the way.

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Test of Quantum Electrodynamics by Electron-Electron Scattering

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