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Fermilab's legendary atom-smasher is shut down | |
September 30, 2011 It was the end of an era as the Tevatron accelerator was shut down Friday afternoon at Fermilab in Batavia. The once most powerful accelerator in the world had its title usurped by the Large Hadron Collider in Europe in 2009. And when the laboratory couldn't get enough U.S. money to keep running the Tevatron a few more years as well as build new experiments, lab officials decided to focus on the... Source: http://dailyherald.com/article/20110930/news/709309604/ |