Chapter 5: The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS): A Tale of Two Lives

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• SPS Distributed Control System: The Emergence of Local Area Networks

• SPS Controls: A Part of Touch-Screen History

• The SPS Muon Beam: Energy, Intensity and Precision

• Two Very Special K⁰ Beams: Discovery of Direct CP Violation

• Liquid Krypton Calorimetry: Elucidating Nature’s Subtle Asymmetries

• Bubble Chambers at the SPS: A Technique at its Apogee

• Polarized Targets: Pointing to New Directions

• The Silicon Age: Micrometre Precision Millions of Times a Second

• References