Tunnel visions : the rise and fall of the superconducting super collider /

Tunnel visions : the rise and fall of the superconducting super collider /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Riordan, Michael, 1946- author.
Imprint:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 448 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Supercolliders -- United States. Physics -- United States. Physics. Supercolliders. United States. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11249043

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Other authors / contributors:	Hoddeson, Lillian, author. Kolb, Adrienne W., author.
ISBN:	9780226305837 022630583X 9780226294797 022629479X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-427) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national security, they held this position for decades. In an effort to maintain their hegemony and track down the elusive Higgs boson, they convinced President Reagan and Congress to support construction of the multibillion-dollar Superconducting Super Collider project in Texas - the largest basic-science project ever attempted. But after the Cold War ended and the estimated SSC cost surpassed ten billion dollars, Congress terminated the project in October 1993. Drawing on extensive archival research, contemporaneous press accounts, and over one hundred interviews with scientists, engineers, government officials, and others involved, Tunnel Visions tells the riveting story of the aborted SSC project.
Other form:	Print version: Riordan, Michael, 1946- Tunnel visions. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015 9780226294797

Table of Contents:

Origins of the super collider
A new frontier outpost, 1983-88
Selling the super collider, 1983-88
Settling in Texas, 1989-91
Washington and the world, 1989-92
The demise of the SSC, 1991-94
Reactions, recovery and analysis
The Higgs Boson discovery.