NSAC recommends a relativistic heavy‐ion collider

The Nuclear Science Advisory Committee submitted its new Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science to DOE and NSF last month. The “highest priority” major new facility recommended in the 1983 NSAC Plan appears already to have aroused considerable excitement beyond the borders of the traditional nuclear‐physics community. NSAC is urging the construction of an ultrarelativistic heavy‐ion collider—a double ring of counter‐circulating 30‐GeV‐per-nucleon beams of ions all the way up to uranium.