CEBAF commissioning and future plans

With first beam on target in July 1994, the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) in Newport News, Virginia began capitalizing on years of planning and work to create a laboratory devoted to the exploration of matter that interacts through the strong force, which holds the quarks inside the proton and binds protons and neutrons into the nucleus. This event is made more remarkable in that the accelerator is available to physicists on schedule and within cost. The success of the project is due largely to a reasoned approach to its planning and the work of scores of talented and motivated individuals