Future research with high energy accelerators; High intensity accelerators below 1 GeV; High intensity multi-GeV proton accelerators

The field of high energy research on fundamental particles and in associated areas has grown dramatically during the last two decades. To assure uninterrupted development of new basic knowledge, physicists need accelerators with higher energy and higher intensity. In turn, these new high energy accelerators are becoming larger, more complex, and more costly. Thus, the scientific community is exerting continuing pressure on funding agencies to provide new and improved machinery for research. This symposium reviewed expected trends in research with the present machines and possible new machines. Recent progress on accelerators which are under construction or which have been completed during the last year or two were reviewed. Prospects for the design of new high-performance accelerators of various kinds and the associated technological problems which must be solved were also discussed.