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Article: Single-file electrons. (Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility)
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- August 9, 1986
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Single-File Electrons
Physicists who want to study the way quarks behave inside the nucleus are waiting for the construction of a powerful yet precise new electron accelerator in Newport News, Va. The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) is to be the most delicate probe in the world for examining the tiniest particles of matter.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is asking Congress for $246 million to build the facility. If Congress agrees to start construction as early as next year, CEBAF could be up and running by 1992. And while such an optimistic timetable is unlikely, according to congressional sources, scientists nevertheless ...