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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), physical science research center located near Batavia, Ill., est. 1968 as the National Accelerator Laboratory, renamed 1974 in honor of Enrico Fermi Fermi, Enrico (ĕnrē`kō fĕr`mē), 1901–54, American physicist, b. Italy. ..... Click the link for more information. . It was built on the site of the former village of Weston. Universities Research Association operates it under contract to the U.S. Dept. of Energy. Work at Fermilab is devoted to the study of elementary particles elementary particles, the most basic physical constituents of the universe. Basic Constituents of MatterMolecules are built up from the atom , which is the basic unit of any chemical element . ..... Click the link for more information. , principally through the use of the Tevatron, a synchrotron particle accelerator particle accelerator, apparatus used in nuclear physics to produce beams of energetic charged particles and to direct them against various targets. Such machines, popularly called atom smashers, are needed to observe objects as small as the atomic nucleus in studies ..... Click the link for more information. completed in 1983 that is capable of accelerating protons and antiprotons up to energies of 980 billion electron-volts. Fermilab discovered the bottom quark (1977) and top quark (1995). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Physicists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. Department of Energy's Ultra Science Network led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and its enablement of a connection between Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the StarLight facility on the Chicago campus of Northwestern University. This scheme, called high-energy electron cooling, helped the Tevatron collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Ill. |
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