1. Douglas Higinbotham, Wally Melnitchouk, and Anthony Thomas, ed., New Insights into the Structure of Matter: The First Decade of Science at Jefferson Lab, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 299 (Bristol: IOP Publishing, 2011), 1.
2. The superconducting, recirculated linac design of CEBAF provides a beam quality (in terms of energy stability, energy spread, transverse emittance, and position stability) remarkably better (typically an order of magnitude or more in each parameter) than what would have been possible from the original SURA pulsed linac-stretcher ring design. This beam quality enabled a broad range of experiments, from nuclear structure studies to parity violation, that simply would have been impossible with the linac-stretcher ring and have contributed immeasurably to the scientific productivity of the laboratory.
3. Higinbotham et al, chapters 14 and 15 (ref. 1).
4. For the early history of the Berkeley laboratory, see J. L. Heilbron and Robert W. Seidel, Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).
5. Dominique Pestre and John Krige, “Some Thoughts on the Early History of CERN,” in Peter Galison and Bruce Hevly, ed., Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 93.