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In article <1992Aug2.010657.29594@utagraph.uta.edu> sawyer@utahep.uta.edu (Lee
Sawyer) writes:
>In article <4605@dove.nist.gov>, gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan Gilligan
3034973861) writes...
>>In article <MATT.92Jul31102346@physics.berkeley.edu>
matt@physics.berkeley.edu writes:
>>>(Particle physicists are almost unanimous in supporting the
>>>construction of the SSC; the opinions of scientists in other fields
>>>are more diverse.)
>> 
>>I'm not sure they all feel that way now that they know that the
>>birth of the SSC will be the death of lepton machines and the
>>contraception of the Bfactory. 
>
>  No no no you don't get it, Jon  it means no Bfactory in the US. That is 
>not the same as saying "no Bfactory. Period." There are plans to locate a 
>Bfactory in Europe, possibly in Spain, although this is jepordised by the LHC.
>The game plan seems clear, at least to me : Large hadron collider in the US,
>500 TeV e+e machine at DESY, a TeV e+e later in Japan (with joint devel
>opment work done at SLAC), a phi factory in Italy, a Bfactory in Spain.
>With EVERYBODY ponying up for construction costs...

Spanish scientists are proposing a tau-charm factory in Spain, not a B factory.
The only serious proposals for a B factory in Europe that I know of are the PSI
proposal in Switzerland which was not approved by the Swiss govt. (almost 2
years ago!) and another proposal to locate a B factory in the CERN SPS tunnel.
The CERN effort has a low priority at CERN. DESY had some plans for a B factory
but their plates are quite full right now with HERA. The most promising
proposal for a B factory outside of the US is in Japan. I agree that the LHC
(and LEP) is jeopardizing many projects in Europe. 

The B factory efforts in the US are far from dead. I believe that a BF in this
country represents the best hope to maintain the US HEP program in
pre-SSC-LHC-JLC era. It is far from clear how the fate of the SSC will affect
the BF. Wait and see...									-John Byrd