[Seminars] EFI Colloquium today!

[Holly Jaffey]

EFI COLLOQUIUM TODAY

Monday April 24, 2017
ERC 401
4:15pm
Small reception following

Speaker:  Adrienne Kolb (former Lab Archivist and Historian for FNAL)

Title:   Tunnel Visions: The History of the Superconducting Super Collider
Abstract: Thirty-four years ago the US high-energy physics community planned the most powerful hadron collider ever attempted, the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), a 54-mile, 20 TeV on 20 TeV proton collider costing $2-3 billion. It was proposed to the Department of Energy in 1983. The NAS and DOE conducted a nation-wide site search. Batavia, Illinois was among the finalists, but Waxahachie, Texas won the competition. Initial construction began in 1989, but by 1992 the project was in trouble. After spending nearly $3B, Congress cancelled the SSC in 1993, and Europe seized the energy frontier.  In the talk I will recall the brief history of the SSC featuring highlights and low points of the project described in the author's 2015 book Tunnel Visions, the Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider, written with coauthors Lillian Hoddeson and Michael Riordan and published in 2015 by The University of Chicago Press.
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