Lecture: "Beyond the Borders of the Lab. Charmed Particles - about the Search for a Site for the Superconducting Super Collider"
As part of the European NetIAS Lecture Series on 5 November 2020 Chrissy Kolaya shared excerpts from her novel Charmed Particles and discussed the research she conducted in preparation for writing it.
In this talk, Chrissy Kolaya shared excerpts from her novel Charmed Particles and discussed the research she conducted in preparation for writing it. As part of her background research for the book, she worked in the archives at Fermilab (one of the sites under consideration for the SSC), interviewed theoretical particle physicists working at Fermilab at the time of the SSC proposal, and combed through Environmental Impact Statements and transcripts of public hearings to bring voice to both sides of the conflict over the push, in the late 1980s, to find a location in the United States for the proposed (but never completed) Superconducting Super Collider (SSC).
The lecture was a ZOOM online event and could be accessed: European NetIAS Lecture ZOOM