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A state-of-the-art detector, the Bates Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid (BLAST), hotographed late last year. it is being built by a collaboration of approximately 50 physicists.
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A state-of-the-art detector, the Bates Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid (BLAST), hotographed late last year. it is being built by a collaboration of approximately 50 physicists.
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Photo / Donna Coveney

Due to a printer's error, the wrong photo appeared with a story about federal funding for the Bates Linear Accelerator on page 10 in the February 3 issue of MIT Tech Talk. The correct photo is printed below.

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on February 10, 1999.

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