Alan Astbury
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Alan Astbury was a Canadian physicist, emeritus professor at the University of Victoria, and director of the Tri-Universities Meson Facility laboratory.
Alan Astbury
Super Proton Synchrotron
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The Super Proton Synchrotron is a particle accelerator of the synchrotron type at CERN. It is housed in a circular tunnel, 6.9 km in circumference, straddling the border of France and Switzerland near
Alan Astbury
…group at the University of Birmingham and Muirhead - Astbury's former tutor at Liverpool - joined Carlo Rubbia in the UA1 collaboration at CERN. The Super Proton Synchrotron which had been designed by John Adam was converted under Rubbia's guidance to a collider, the Super Proton–Antiproton Synchrotron. The British contingent…
Test beamline delivered from the SPS. In photo 20 GeV positrons are used to calibrate the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
A proton–antiproton collision from the UA5 experiment at the SPS in 1982