The contribution of bubble chambers to European scientific collaboration
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Nuclear physics b, 1994, Vol. 36, pp. 419-426
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KRIGE, John, The contribution of bubble chambers to European scientific collaboration, Nuclear physics b, 1994, Vol. 36, pp. 419-426 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/71315
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"It's no good in this field to be excellent and always late". These words to the CERN Council in June 1962 summed up the disappointment felt by DG Victor Weisskopf and by the entire European physics community. It had just been announced that the existence of two kinds of neutrinos had been confirmed at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. CERN too had launched a major programme to this end, choosing to use two heavy liquid bubble chambers rather than the spark chamber preferred by BNL. In summer 1961, however, Guy von Dardel had discovered that the whole exercise was fruitless. The experiment was not feasible because the beam intensity was too low. A Nobel Prize had eluded CERN's grasp - the first of many for the next two decades.
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First published online: 10 April 2003