To DESY via CERN

Abstract

AbstractIn 1970, the Schoppers moved to Geneva. Herwig had been offered a position as head of the laboratory’s Nuclear Physics Division, and he took unpaid leave of absence from Karlsruhe to take up the post. It was a timely move, since following his first stint at CERN, he’d set up a CERN user group at Karlsruhe, doing experiments at the proton synchrotron (PS) and later the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR). The group would later benefit from CERN’s agreement with the Soviet Union, signed in 1967, to go to the world’s highest-energy accelerator of its day at Protvino, near Moscow.