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Science 28 March 1986:
Vol. 231. no. 4745, pp. 1522 - 1527
DOI: 10.1126/science.231.4745.1522
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Elementary Particle Physics and the Superconducting Super Collider

CHRIS QUIGG 1 and ROY F. SCHWITTERS 2

1 Head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Post Office Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, and professor of physics at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
2 Professor of physics at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, and visiting scientist at Fermilab where he is coleader of the Collider Detector project.

The present status and future prospects of elementary particle physics are reviewed, and some of the scientific questions that motivate the construction of a major new accelerator complex in the United States are summarized.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
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