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    The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) (also nicknamed the "Desertron") was a particle accelerator complex under construction in the vicinity of Waxahachie...
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    In practice, currents injected in superconducting coils persisted for 28 years, 7 months, 27 days in a superconducting gravimeter in Belgium, from August...
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    for a new powerful collider to explore new physics at the >1 TeV scale had already started in 1983. The Superconducting Super Collider was to accelerate...
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  • supporter – some sources say the architect or proposer – of the Superconducting Super Collider project, which was endorsed around 1983, and was a major proponent...
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    University of Texas at Austin. He was also director of the Superconducting Super Collider between 1989 and 1993. Schwitters earned a B.S at MIT in 1966...
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    Circular Collider (FCC) is a proposed particle accelerator with an energy significantly above that of previous circular colliders, such as the Super Proton...
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    incorporate superconducting cryomodules. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and Large Hadron Collider also make use of superconducting magnets and RF...
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    operational since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was still under construction and the planned Superconducting Super Collider had been cancelled in 1993 and...
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    contributed to the successful effort to cancel Department of Energy's Superconducting Super Collider project, which had already lost a 1992 vote in the House of...
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    machine, the Superconducting SuperCollider (SSC) Abbott, Charles (20 June 1987). "Super competition for superconducting super collider". Illinois Issues...
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