1. The history of the development of superconducting materials that could be used to make wire and cable for magnets is recounted in T. G. Berlincourt, “Superconducting Niobium-Titanium: Enabler for Affordable MRI and the Search for the Higgs Boson,” Physics in Perspective 17 (2016) 334–53.
2. A summary of all RHIC data runs, which began in the year 2000, can be found at Brookhaven National Laboratory, “Run Overview of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider,” accessed February 19, 2014, http://www.agsrhichome.bnl.gov/RHIC/Runs/ .
3. S. Wojcicki, “The Supercollider,” pt. 1 “The Pre-Texas Days”; pt. 2 “The Texas Days,” Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology 1 (2008), 259–303; 2 (2009), 265–301. These excellent accounts give a comprehensive overview of the SSC project, though they perforce miss much of the detailed effort and interactive endeavor that characterized the technical work. References to other narratives can be found in the Wojcicki volumes. Additional accounts have appeared in the years since then.
4. Brookhaven National Laboratory, “Courses on the Superconducting Accelerator Magnets with Ramesh Gupta as One of the Instructors,” https://www.bnl.gov/magnets/Staff/Gupta/scmag-course/index.htm . This reference is to various US Particle Accelerator Schools, in particular the 2001 School held at Rice University in Houston. In addition, Millicent (Penny) Ball and her colleagues developed and marketed, with DOE funding, a CD-ROM tutorial describing the design, engineering, and building of superconducting magnets after the SSC Laboratory, where she had been working, was closed.
5. Nicholas Samios, BNL memo, July 11, 1983, in author’s possession.