CERN Accelerating science

Article
Report number	CERN-ACC-2020-013
Title	The CERN 25 GeV Proton Synchrotron The backbone of CERN celebrated its 60th Anniversary
Author(s)	Hanke, Klaus (CERN) ; Hubner, Kurt
Corporate Author(s)	CERN. Geneva. ATS Department
Publication	2020
Imprint	01 Jun 2020
Note	Published in Communications de la SSP (Swiss Physical Society)
In:	SPG Mitt. 61 (2020) pp.32-37
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN PS
Free keywords	Accelerator ; PS ; Anniversary
Abstract	On 24 November 1959 the first proton beam was accelerated to 24 GeV. This event 60 years ago was duly celebrated in a colloquium at CERN in November 2019. This article summarizes the conception, design, construction and evolution of this unique physics instrument, which became the tireless workhorse and the unflagging backbone of the accelerator-based research programme of CERN [1, 2].
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