Interest and excitement in many areas of physics and chemistry are growing as the research opportunities that would be offered by a universal heavy‐ion accelerator begin to be appreciated. Advances made possible with existing beams—of carbon, oxygen, sulfur and argon—have stimulated the imagination of scientists who contemplate what would be possible with an accelerator allowing nuclear reactions all the way up to U238 on U238 to be studied.

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