To observe collisions between the most elementary particles available, at the highest possible momentum transfer.
Prehistoric Reggepolology. ('57-'70) High momentum transfer elastic scattering. We called it "constituent interchange" but these backward peaks were from quark exchange. See for example Backward Elastic Scattering of pions by protons, by Frisken et al. in Phys. Rev. Letters vol. 15, pp 313-316 (1965).
Ancient and Mediaeval. ('69-'74) Frisken's meteorological phase. The Atmospheric Environment, by W.R. Frisken, Johns Hopkins U.P. (1973)
Early attempt at e-p Collider Physics. The CHEER Feasibility Report, Chapter V, The CHEER Detector. Published by the Institute of Particle Physics, (1980) (CHEER was a Canadian High Energy Electron Ring to have been built tangent to Fermilab's 1 Tev proton ring.)
Recent history. ('81-'96) The ARGUS Experiment at DESY in Hamburg, Germany. Electron-Positron annihilation at the b-quark pair threshold. see the compendium, Physics With ARGUS, published in Physics Reports vol. 276 pp 223-408 (long!) (1996)
Current. The ZEUS experiment at DESY, Hamburg. Participating in building ZEUS was a natural outcome of CHEER, although it took the Canadian group until 1987 to get funding to build the ZEUS calorimeter. ZEUS has now been running several years, and has published many articles about its discoveries. See for example how ZEUS is challenging the standard model at high x and Q**2 in Zeitschr. Phys. C-74, 207-220 (1997). Press the particle physics papers button below to see W. Frisken's many publications with his ZEUS colleagues.
For the future. Currently investigating limiting behaviour of niobium, niobium films, and niobium compound films used in Superconducting R.F. cavities, with a view to increasing the affordable energy of a future linear collider.
Viewpoint:
When surrounded by turkeys, remember the universal law of cosmology, viz: the universe appears the same no matter from which point it is viewed.
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