45-YEARS OF E+ E- ANNIHILATION PHYSICS: 1956 TO 2001
B. Richter · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2021
Electron-positron physics is an appropriate subject to talk about at this symposium dedicated to W. K. H. Panofsky because the development of e+e-physics with storage rings has been intimately connected with laboratories that Pief has headed -the High Energy Physics laboratory at Stanford that he directed until 1962, and SLAC which he has directed since then.But talking only about the past gives no scope for the imagination and since I like to speculate, I will take on the task in this talk of describing not only what has been, but of what will be.I will divide this into five parts -(1) the beginnings of the field; (2) the decade of the 1970s when most of the spectacular discoveries were made; (3) the present period, which is a time of consolidation; (4) the near future, which is the era of the SLC and LEP; and finally (5) the period up to 2001 (an appropriate time to stop since I will be 70 then) that completes the 45 years of the title.