The Super Proton Synchrotron is a particle accelerator of the synchrotron type operated by CERN. It runs through a circular underground tunnel about 6.9 kilometers in circumference that straddles the border of France and Switzerland near Geneva.
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YearCommissioning date; the SPS remains in active operation today as the LHC injector. SignificanceThe SPS operated as a proton-antiproton collider whose UA1 and UA2 experiments discovered the W and Z bosons in 1983, work recognized by the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics. 1 Connections
Associated With
SPS is the final injector stage that accelerates protons for the LHC.
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Wikimedia FoundationHistory section
Originally specified as a 300 GeV accelerator, the SPS was actually built to be capable of 400 GeV, an operating energy it achieved on the official commissioning date of 17 June 1976.
Major discoveries section
The 1984 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer for the developments that led to this discovery.
status sentence
The Super Proton Synchrotron is a particle accelerator of the synchrotron type operated by CERN.
Associated With: Large Hadron Collider, Later operations section
The SPS is used as the final injector for high-intensity proton beams for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which began preliminary operation on 10 September 2008, for which it accelerates protons from 26 to 450 GeV.
In Group: Particle Colliders, Introduction
The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is a particle accelerator of the synchrotron type at CERN. It is housed in a circular tunnel, 6.9 km (4+1⁄3 miles) in circumference, straddling the border of France and Switzerland near Geneva, Switzerland.
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