Electronic Experiments Committee

In 1960 the Director-General John Adams proposed a number of measures to define a global policy for the exploitation of the Synchro-Cyclotron (SC) and the new Proton Synchrotron (PS). He decided to create three Committees, one for each experimental technique used:

• Electronic: Electronic Experiments Commitee (EEC)
• Bubble chambers: Track Chamber Committee (TCC)
• Emulsions: Emulsion Committee (EmC)

These three new committees were proposed to replace the Advisory Committee and the Bubble Chamber Committee.

The EEC had the task of examining proposals for electronics experiments (counter and other electronic experiments not included in the TCC and EmC functions) to be carried out at the CERN 28 GeV Proton Synchrotron (PS), and making recommendations to the Nuclear Physics Research Committee (NPRC). It formed a link between the European counter groups and the CERN Laboratory.

The EEC came into operation in 1961, and met about once a month. The first meeting was held on 1 March, 1961. It comprised a Chairperson (a senior physicist working on electronic experiments, not on the staff of CERN) and Members (representatives of CERN and other European counter groups wanting to use the CERN facilities).

In 1966, the EEC was often called the Physics I Committee (PH-I-COM). This name referred to the new departments, Physics I and Physics II, which had just been created as an additional layer in CERN's organisational structure. The name PH-I was sometimes used (from 1966 until the departments were abolished in 1976) in the numbering systems of EEC. For example, propositions for the EEC were given "PH-I-COM-YY-RN" numbers, while EEC minutes had "EEC-YY-RN" numbers.

In 1976 (end of the bubble chambers period) John Adams and Léon Van Hove rationalized the system, abolishing the committee system based on experimental techniques, and basing it instead on the machine. EEC and TCC merged to become the Proton Synchrotron Committee (PSC).

1961	1965	1974	1976	1977
EEC	EEC / PH-I-COM	EEC		PSC
TCC	TCC / PH-II-COM		TCC
			PSC

1961 Chairperson: Salvini, G EEC documents without reference	1962 Chairperson: Cassels, J M EEC documents without reference	1963 Chairperson: Cassels J M EEC documents without reference
1964 Chairperson: Cassels, J M EEC documents without reference	1965 Chairperson: Puppi, G EEC documents without reference CERN-PH-I-COM-65-1 to 59 Fulltexts	1966 Chairperson: Paul, W EEC documents without reference CERN-PH-I-COM-66-1 to 056 Fulltexts
1967 Chairperson: Paul, W EEC documents without reference CERN-PH-I-COM-67-1 to 51 Fulltexts	1968 Chairperson: Paul, W EEC documents without reference CERN-PH-I-COM-68-1 to 58 Fulltexts	1969 Chairperson: Falk-Vairant, P EEC documents without reference CERN-PH-I-COM-69-1 to 61 Fulltexts
1970 Chairperson: Falk-Vairant, P EEC documents without reference CERN-PH-I-COM-70-1 to 65 Fulltexts	1971 Chairperson: Mannelli, I EEC documents without reference CERN-PH-I-COM-71-1 to 52 Fulltexts	1972 Chairperson: Mannelli, I EEC documents without reference CERN-PH-I-COM-72-1 to 48 Fulltexts
1973 Chairperson: Manelli, I EEC documents without reference CERN-PH-I-COM-73-1 to 66 Fulltexts	1974 Chairperson: Manelli, I CERN-EEC-74-1 to 54 Fulltexts	1975 Chairperson: Astbury, A CERN-EEC-75-1 to 63 Fulltexts
1976 Chairperson: Astbury, A CERN-EEC-76-1 to 26 Fulltexts

For more information, see https://sis.web.cern.ch/archives/history_CERN/Scientific_committees#EEC