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In article <16APR199209312039@sscvx1.ssc.gov> sawyer@sscvx1.ssc.gov (Lee Sawyer) writes:
>
>Because of a lot of problems, funding being one of them, SLC has not been
>a major competitor for LEP; it has however shown us the way to go towards
>the next electron machine.

Surely you must know that they "screwed the pooch" with the design of SLC, 
mainly out of ignorance of the important role of non-linear beam optics 
effects on microbeams.  They relied on a simple beam-line design, and never 
talked to the experts in this field -- who happen to be from the low-energy 
nuclear and atomic physics community rather than particle physicists.  The 
old not-invented-here syndrome.  I am told that 'everyone' knew the bends 
should be kept in a single plane ....

Actually, it is near miraculous that they were able to get it to work after 
a year or so of beam tuning by hitting magnets with sledgehammers, but that 
was the year of running they needed to beat out LEP.  If they had used the 
money for excavation instead ...

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