A Personal History of CESR and CLEO

Download or read book A Personal History of CESR and CLEO written by Karl Berkelman and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable book is a historical account of the Cornell ElectronStorage Ring and its main detector facility, CLEO, from theirbeginnings in the late 1970''s until the end of data collection atparticle energies above the threshold for B meson production inJune 2001. The CESR electronOCopositron collider was the culminationof a series of electron accelerators constructed at the CornellLaboratory of Nuclear Studies, starting in 1945. Measurement of theproducts of the e+eOCo collisions was performedwith the multipurpose CLEO apparatus, built and operated by the CLEOcollaboration, which consisted of about 200 faculty, staff andgraduate students from over 20 universities. This account is basedmainly on the author''s recollections as a participant."