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    The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) (also nicknamed the "Desertron") was a particle accelerator complex under construction in the vicinity of Waxahachie...
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    of the magnetic field in the interior of the superconductor during its transitions into the superconducting state. The occurrence of the Meissner effect...
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  • supporter – some sources say the architect or proposer – of the Superconducting Super Collider project, which was endorsed around 1983, and was a major proponent...
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  • accelerator. Supercollider may also refer to: The Superconducting Super Collider, planned 80 km particle collider project in Texas, cancelled in 1993 The Tevatron...
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    University of Texas at Austin. He was also director of the Superconducting Super Collider between 1989 and 1993. Schwitters earned a B.S at MIT in 1966...
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    for a new powerful collider to explore new physics at the >1 TeV scale had already started in 1983. The Superconducting Super Collider was to accelerate...
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    contributed to the successful effort to cancel Department of Energy's Superconducting Super Collider project, which had already lost a 1992 vote in the House of...
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    incorporate superconducting cryomodules. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and Large Hadron Collider also make use of superconducting magnets and RF...
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    operational since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was still under construction and the planned Superconducting Super Collider had been cancelled in 1993 and...
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    Circular Collider (FCC) is a proposed particle accelerator with an energy significantly above that of previous circular colliders, such as the Super Proton...
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    Reaper". Esquire. Jeffreys, Kent (1992). "Super Boondoggle Time To Pull The Plug On The Superconducting Super Collider". cato.org. Archived from the original...
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  • 1994). "The Superconducting Super Collider Project. A Summary". Archived from the original on 8 July 2008. "Industry eyes the next big collider". 1 July...
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  • decades would be required to construct such a collider. Particle physics Superconducting Super Collider - planned ring circumference of 87.1 kilometres...
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    machine, the Superconducting SuperCollider (SSC) Abbott, Charles (20 June 1987). "Super competition for superconducting super collider". Illinois Issues...
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    proposed was the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), which was to be built in the United States. This design, like others, used superconducting magnets which...
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    the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and oversaw the shutdown of the Superconducting Super Collider. John Peoples Jr. was born on January 22, 1933, in New York...
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  • muons. After the U.S. government pulled the funding on the Superconducting Super Collider project, the team was recruited by CERN to help build part of...
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  • needed] In early 2006, Hunt bought the site of the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas, for $6.5 million, hoping to turn it into...
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  • efforts of physicists George and Roger as they work to bring the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) online in Waxahachie, Texas. Alice is a novelist who becomes...
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    weather modification research, and the US Department of Energy Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) project. Hess retired as the associate director of the...
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    connection led to a magnet quench (the sudden loss of a superconducting magnet's superconducting ability owing to warming or electric field effects). Six...
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  • Adrienne (2015). Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-29479-7. Riordan...
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    Tevatron (redirect from Tevatron collider)
    earthquake. Bevatron Large Hadron Collider Superconducting Super Collider Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider "Accelerator History—Main...
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  • long-sought Higgs boson. Parts of the plot are based on the aborted Superconducting Super Collider project. Published by Little, Brown and Company, ISBN 0-316-52590-1...
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    1991. After his doctorate, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and Superconducting Super Collider Fellow from 1991 to 1994. In 1995, he became an assistant professor...
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  • Test Facility, which was constructed but never turned on; the Superconducting Super Collider, which cost $2 billion before its cancellation; and ITER, the...
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  • Adrienne W. Kolb (2015). Tunnel visions : the rise and fall of the superconducting super collider. Chicago. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-226-29479-7. OCLC 907132862.{{cite...
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    spokesman for science, testifying before Congress in support of the Superconducting Super Collider, writing articles for The New York Review of Books, and giving...
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  • books on the history of particle physics and a 2015 book on the Superconducting Super Collider. In 2012 she received the Abraham Pais Prize for History of...
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  • Representatives, arguing against building the Superconducting Super Collider. In his view, the collider would be so expensive that it would drain funds...
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