Two months ago, the superconducting supercollider was killed by the US Congress. Here, a particle physicist provides a post mortem and asks whether Europe should build its own collider.
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emeritus professor of physics at Stanford University. For the past 5 years he worked as a consultant for the SSC accelerator division.
- David Ritson
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Ritson, D. Demise of the Texas supercollider. Nature 366, 607–610 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/366607a0
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