Alternating Gradient Synchrotron
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The Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) is a particle accelerator-collider complex located at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, New York, USA.
The work performed at the accelerator lead to three Nobel Prizes:
- 1976: Samuel C. C. Ting discovered the J part of the J/ψ and the charm quark.
- 1980: James Cronin and Val Fitch discovered CP violation by experimenting with K-mesons.
- 1988: The Nobel Prize went for 1962 pioneering work: the discovery of the muon neutrino. The prize was awarded to Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger.
Currently the primary function of AGS is to pre-accelerate ions for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, also operated by BNL.
[edit] References
- Abraham Pais (1988). Inward Bound: of matter and forces in the physical world . Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198519974.
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