If it is built, the super collider will employ about 3,000 scientists and technicians and lure related industries, schools and laboratories to the area. To some callous people, this is high-tech pork. The degree of scientific knowledge may not be as high at another building anchoring the Mall, the Capitol, but congressmen understand the value of a multibillion-dollar project especially if they can get it for their hometown. "This will be the crown jewel of high-energy physics," Energy Secretary John Herrington said January 30 in announeing President Reagan's decision to go ahead with it. It would be the largest and most expensive scientific machine ever built a racetrack-shaped ring of 10,000 super-magnets 53 miles in circumference carrying a price tag of at least $4.4 billion and conceivably closer to $5.3 billion. Seven blocks away, in the Energy Department headquarters building overlooking the Mall, are some of the people who understand how cyclotrons work and who want to go to the frontier in high-energy physics: the superconducting super collider (SSC).
Replied her companion, "How do they get one atom? I don't understand." "We just had a test on this," one teenager said during an Eastertime visit to the atom smasher display. Visitors tend to pay more attention to the display behind it: a full-scale model of a 1936 cyclotron that used a massive World War I surplus 70-ton magnet and a 27-inch vaccuum chamber that looks like a large, hollow metal pancake. It is small enough to fit comfortably in a man's hand. late in 1930," says the description next to the hockey-puck like "tube," which is four inches in diameter and one inch thick. "The first successful cyclotron 'tube,' constructed and tested.
There is the Friendship 7 capsule that made John Glenn the first American to orbit the earth, the Hope diamond, one of the lead tractors from the farmer tractorcades of the 1970s and, easily overlooked between "Textiles" and an 1865 telescope from Vassar College at the National Museum of American History, a relic from the early efforts to take atoms apart. The Smithsonian Institution, renowned for its museums along the Mall in Washington, is sometimes nicknamed America's attic, a comfortable place where visitors can wander about and rummage for knowledge. University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, Ĭrediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.Super competition for superconducting super collider Simulation of the coil winder for the superconducting supercollider, oai/?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=info:ark/67531/metadc1315391 International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Although the funding for the SSC was canceled, the results of the research and development project for construction of this unique facility will find application in other large-scale construction and manufacturing problems. The objectives of the simulation study were to understand the dynamic behavior of the system and to explore strategies for control. The Advanced Continuous Simulation Language (ACSL) was used to encode a mathematical model of the system. This paper describes a computer simulation of the coil winding apparatus. The control problem consists of multiple interacting control loops. The amount of plastic deformation in the conductor must be tightly controlled to pack it into the large bobbin with a certain desired force. The speed of conductor payout must be coordinated from a small spool through two stages of roll formers to the final coil shape on a large bobbin. Several process variables must be controlled to demanding tolerances during the coil winding operation. The magnet windings of the SSC consist of conductor coils which are placed around a torus to generate a strong magnetic field within the torus. A unique apparatus has been designed to shape the magnet windings for the Superconducting Supercollider (SSC).
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