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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
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These machines have included both traditional accelerators, those in which a beam of high-energy particles strikes a stationary target, and also the newer colliding-beam machines, accelerators in which two beams of high-energy particles collide head on. We are now in a position to look for the answers to yet more basic questions: What determines the properties of the elementary particles?
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ELEMENTARY-PARTICLE PHYSICS Elementary-particle physics is the study of the basic nature of matter, of force, of energy, of time, and of space. We seek to discover the simplest constituents of matter, which we call the elementary particles, and we seek to understand the basic forces that operate between them.
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One of the goals of the physicist is to find out if these four forces can be derived from an even more basic, single, unified force. Significant progress has been made in this direction in the last two decades, as we now know that the electromagnetic and weak forces are two manifestations of a single underlying force.
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As experimental work produces new data, theory is tested by the data, and theory is used to organize the data. Sometimes a flash of theoretical insight leads to new experiments; at other times an experiment unexpectedly produces surprising new data and upsets currently accepted theories.
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Our understanding of the physics of accelerators, together with inventions in accelerator technology, has now reached the point that we can substantially increase the energy reached by colliding-beam accelerators. Higher-energy electron-positron colliders and antiprotonproton colliders are now under construction in the United States, Europe, Japan' and the Soviet Union.
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. It would be based on the accelerator principles and technology that were developed in connection with the construction of the Tevatron and on other extensive work on superconducting magnets in the United States.
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