Number 26 (Story #3), March, 22 1991 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE SOLENOIDAL DETECTOR COLLABORATION , consisting of physicists from 61 institutions and headed by George Trilling of LBL, hope to build the first detector facility at SSC. Their proposal to construct the 40-meter-long $500-million device was approved by the SSC Program Advisory Committee in November. Under usual running conditions, the SDC detector will have to be able to sort through about 100 billion collision events per second. (Physics Today, March 1991.)