[en] On 22 April a forward-looking CERN also looked back for a day, when the 'SC-33' event reviewed the achievements of CERN's first machine, the 600 MeV SynchroCyclotron (SC), which closed down on 17 December after 33 years of valiant service

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[en] On 17 December, after having seen many other physics machines come and go during its 33-year career, CERN's 600 MeV SynchroCyclotron (SC) is being shut down. Judged simply by its length (to say nothing of its quality), the research career of this machine testifies to the wisdom and imagination of the CERN pioneers who proposed it in the early 1950s

[en] The Gamow-Teller strength at high energy, in the vicinity of the pion mass, is linked to the absorption of p wave pions. It is not subject to Pauli blocking and increases linearly with the nucleon number. (orig.)

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[en] The prospects for using high-energy pions to examine modifications of baryon resonances in nuclei, nuclear structure, exchange currents, short-range correlations, and to characterize pion propagation are discussed

[en] At the beginning of 1994, the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) of the Harvard Medical School in Boston (MA, USA) a pioneer in proton therapy since 1959, selected a team led by Ion Beam Applications SA (IBA) to supply the proton therapy equipment of its new Northeast Proton Therapy Centre (NPTC),. The IBA integrated system includes a compact 235 MeV isochronous cyclotron, a short energy selection transforming the fixed energy beam extracted form the cyclotron into a variable energy beam, one or more isocentric gantries fitted with a nozzle, a system consisting of one or more horizontal beam lines, a global control system including an accelerator control unit and several independent but networked therapy control stations, a global safety management system, and a robotic patient positioning system. The present paper presents the equipment being built for the NPTC. (author)

[en] This report covers the intermediate energy research program at the University of Houston during the contract year December 1, 1979 to November 30, 1980. During this time experiments were proposed and implemented at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and the Brookhaven National Laboratory. This work, in part, involed the determination of nucleon-nucleon spin-dependent amplitudes, mainly in the inelastic channels, and hypernuclear spectroscopy using the (K^-, π^-) reaction. Participation continued in the development of a new kaon beam facility at the AGS. The year was productive as evidenced by the data collected, the number of invited presentations, and the publication list. 6 figures, 2 tables