Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider
Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider
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隧道愿景：超导超级对撞机的兴衰
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10.1093/jahist/jaw487
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2016
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Keith R. Benson
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作者：
Keith R. Benson
隧道视野是一个详细的和从事帐户的发展超导超级对撞机，其中一个最大的科学事业在美国在其世纪的“大科学”，从起源的超级对撞机在1987年到最终放弃在1993年。最初的目标是建造世界上最大的粒子加速器，以产生受控的，非常高能量的电子和质子碰撞。物理学家预计，这些碰撞将产生关于希格斯玻色子基本粒子和其他仅发生在高能级的核现象的性质的数据。这些信息对于完成粒子物理学的“标准模型”至关重要，该模型在世纪的大部分时间里一直指导着该领域。《隧道视野》是一部如此有价值的学术著作，因为它的作者详尽地挖掘了档案数据，查阅了科学出版物，研究了政府文件，并进行了数百次采访，以产生对超级对撞机历史的丰富和多层次的描述。作为这个国家最昂贵的科学冒险之一，它是由粒子物理学界提出的，
Tunnel Visions is a detailed and engaging account of the development of the superconducting supercollider, one of the largest scientific undertakings in the United States during its century of “big science,” from the origin of the supercollider in 1987 to its eventual abandonment in 1993. The initial goal was to build the world’s largest particle accelerator to produce controlled, extraordinarily high-energy electron and proton collisions. Physicists anticipated these collisions would yield data on the nature of the Higgs boson elementary particle and other nuclear phenomena occurring only at high-energy levels. Such information was critical to complete the “standard model” of particle physics, which directed the field for much of the twentieth century.Tunnel Visions is such a valuable piece of scholarship because its authors have exhaustively mined archival data, consulted scientific publications, explored government documents, and conducted hundreds of interviews to produce a rich and multilayered depiction of the supercollider’s history. One of this country’s costliest scientific adventures, it was proposed by the particle physics community, ar-