Pisa and the Collider Detector at Fermilab: a History of the Establishment of Precision Physics With a Calorimetric Spectrometer at a Hadron Collider

Abstract

This is a personal and admittedly US-centric attempt to summarize the foundational impact of the Pisa CDF Group on the conceptual design, construction, and early operation of the CDF Detector at Fermilab. I have tried to go back to original documents where possible.