New Atomic Accelerator

Excerpt from the December 14, 1963, issue of Science News Letter

A new atom smasher for probing the inner cores of atoms, one of the three largest of its type in the world, is now in full operation at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ill. The atomic accelerator, called the ZGS for Zero Gradient Synchrotron, will accelerate protons to 12.5