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A Brief History of the Discovery of the Bottom Quark
Brief History of the Work Leading to Upsilon (Compiled by the Experimenters)
| June, | 1970 | Proposal to measure single lepton pairs at Fermilab (E-70), experimenters propose to find a heavy particle, "Publish and become famous." |
| Summer, | 1971 | Lead glass tests at Cornell's Wilson Electron Synchrotron and Brookhaven AGS |
| March, | 1973 | First apparatus at Fermilab in Proton Center Target Hall (invention of rain shields!) |
| May, | 1973 | Experiment to serarch for long-lived, heavy particles using the proton beam line as an analyzing device (E-187) (none were found?) |
| Sept., | 1973 | First setup for high PT single electron search (discovery of anumalously large yield of electrons and muons at large angles announced!) |
| June, | 1974 | Lepton pair experiment renamed E-288 (for reasons known only to the 2nd floor?) |
| Oct., | 1974 | First crude attempt to observe muon pairs (a crude reaction to the exciting discovery of the J/Psi at SLAC and Brookhaven) |
| Dec., | 1974 | Search for Φ mesons as a source of high PT Leptons (a wild goose chase!) |
| Aug., | 1975 | First electron pair setup (discovery of superbuckets in the accelerator!) |
| Feb., | 1976 | First muon pair setup (muon pairs look promising for the future, Super 288 planned!) |
| May, | 1976 | High mass hadron pairs (E-494) and more electron pair running (Stony Brook physicists join the collaboration) |
| April, | 1977 | Installation of "Super 288" with new target box and improved muon spectrometers (with a sensitivity 400 times grater than the 1975 electron pair experiment) |
| June, | 1977 | Announcement of results at Fermilab including 950 events near 9.5 GeV/c, the Upsilon. |