Quenched! The ISABELLE saga, i

Physics in Perspective

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 330-376

  Crease, Robert P ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Science; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Fermilab; George Vineyard; High energy physics; ISABELLE; John Blewett; Kenneth Green; Laboratory; Leon Lederman; Particle accelerator; Superconducting magnets

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644474815     PISSN: 14226944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00016-004-0246-7     Document Type: Article

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