From: ndallen@r-node.pci.on.ca
Subject: U.S., Russia Sign Agreement on Super Collider
Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:59:56 GMT

Here is a press release from the U.S. Department of Energy.

 U.S., Russia Sign Agreement on Super Collider
 To: National and Foreign desks, Energy Writer
 Contact: Jeff Sherwood of the U.S. Department of Energy,
          202-586-5806

   WASHINGTON, Jan. 6  -- Secretary of Energy James D. Watkins 
signed a government-to-government agreement today between the
United States Department of Energy and the Russian Federation
Ministry of Atomic Energy (MINATOM) for a program of collaboration on
the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC).
   "This historic agreement calls for Russian participation in the
design, engineering and production of two of the project's booster
accelerators," Watkins said.  "Russian scientists and engineers are
working on site in Texas at the SSC Laboratory.  This is the third
country to join in this international project, China and India having
already begun international participation."
   Vladimir Lukin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation, presented
the agreement to Watkins at the signing ceremony.  Minister Victor
Mikhailov of MINATOM signed the agreement on behalf of the Russian
Federation in Moscow in December.
   As part of this cooperation, the SSC Laboratory and six Russian
laboratories have signed laboratory-to-laboratory agreements.  The
Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics (BINP) in Novosibirsk concluded
an agreement in January 1992, to design, engineer and build
conventional magnets for the SSC's Low Energy Booster.  An agreement
to build quadrupole, or focusing, magnets for the SSC's Medium Energy
Booster at the Radiotechnical Institute (MRTI) in Moscow was signed
this week.  These agreements represent a potential total savings to
the U.S. of more than $100 million as an offset to the project's
baseline cost.
   In addition to the agreements to build components for the SSC
accelerators, the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) in
Protvino, the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, the Joint
Institute of Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna and the Institute of
Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) in Moscow signed
agreements in 1992 with the SSC Laboratory for collaboration on the
design and construction of the SSC experimental detectors.
Discussions are ongoing regarding components that could be provided
for the accelerators.
   The Low and Medium Energy Boosters are two of a sequence of five
accelerators at the SSC.  The 0.35 mile (0.54 km) Low Energy Booster
will receive beams of protons from a linear accelerator at an energy
of 600 million electron volts and boost their energy with radio
frequency pulses to 11 billion electron volts.  The 2.4 mile (4 km)
Medium Energy Booster will further accelerate the beams to 200
bllion electron volts.  Both these boosters use resistive
electromagnets to guide the protons.  The beams then will enter a
6.7 mile (10.8 km) High Energy Booster that will increase the
protons' energies to 2 trillion electron volts and then inject the
beams in opposite directions into the main 54 mile (87 km) collider
rings to be guided by superconducting magnets.  The collider will
then further accelerate the two beams to 20 trillion electron volts
so that the resulting collision between the beams will occur with a
total energy of up to 40 trillion electron volts.
   In addition to the Russian partnership, India joined the SSC in
1988 and is currently working on the design and fabrication of
beam-line transfer magnets, correction magnets and radio-frequency
equipment.  The Department of Energy and the Chinese Academy of
Sciences signed a government-to-government agreement in November
1992, under which the Institute for High Energy Physics in Beijing
will build the cavity-coupled Linac, which is the largest section of
the SSC's linear accelerator.  Technical discussions regarding other
items to be provided by the People's Republic of China are ongoing.
   The Superconducting Super Collider, under construction in Ellis
County, Texas, near Dallas and Fort Worth, will be the world's most
powerful particle accelerator.  It will be used to conduct research
on the fundamental nature of matter and energy.
    The Universities Research Association operates the SSC Laboratory
for the Department of Energy.
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Nigel Allen, Toronto, Ontario    ndallen@r-node.gts.org