El. knyga: Innovation Was Not Enough: A History of the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA) [World Scientific e-book]

The Midwestern Universities Research Assn. (MURA), a federation of 15 universities that lasted from 1953 to 1967, was responsible for the invention of fixed field alternating gradient accelerators, as well as important contributions to accelerator orbit theory, radio frequency acceleration techniques, colliding beams technology, orbit instabilities, computation methods, and designs of accelerator magnets and linear accelerator cavities. In this first book-length history of MURA, former MURA staff Jones, Mills, Sessler, Symon, and Young examine the motivations for creating the association and how the joint activity was accomplished, the interaction between MURA and the Atomic Energy Commission and its Argonne National Laboratory, the technical accomplishments of the Midwestern group, and the impact of their advances on research in subsequent years. Illustrated throughout with b&w photographs. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This book presents a history of the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA) during its lifetime from the early 1950s to the late 1960s. MURA was responsible for a number of important contributions to the science of particle accelerators, including the invention of fixed field alternating gradient accelerators (FFAG), as well as contributions to accelerator orbit theory, radio frequency acceleration techniques, colliding beams technology, orbit instabilities, computation methods, and designs of accelerator magnets and linear accelerator cavities. A number of students were trained by MURA in accelerator techniques, and went on to important posts where they made further contributions to the field. The authors were all members of the MURA staff and themselves made many contributions to the field. No other such history exists, and there are relatively few publications devoted to the history of particle accelerators.