LAST MAY, APPROXIMATELY four years after construction started at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, a beam traveled the entire two‐mile length of the accelerator from an injector at the west end to a beam dump at the east end. This machine is distinguished not only by its length and high energy (20 GeV); it also produces high current (30 microamperes), exceeding by a factor of 100 that of any other machine operating with an energy greater than 10 GeV. Moreover the design permits future expansion (from stage I to stage II) that will double both energy and current by adding radiofrequency sources along the length. Details of the design evolution appear in references 1–5.

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