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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 Matter



Molecules 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).
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Once abundant in the Big Bang, sigma-bs--and the bottom quarks that make them special--show up today only in high-energy events such as particle collisions, notes Fermilab physicist Rob Roser, also a spokesman for the sigma-b discoverers.
Heavy finding by Science News
However at a recent conference at Fermilab [1], the consensus among researchers in the field is that these experiments will not really be able to produce realistic tests of the Standard Model because the Standard Model, using conventional perturbation techniques, is far from being able to produce predictions of sufficient accuracy for these effects.
Search for a neutron electric dipole moment by Huffman, P.R. / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
``It takes all man's ingenuity to build a particle accelerator at Fermilab or Stanford, but it's quite commonplace in nature to produce these jets.
QUASAR'S INTENSE GAMMA RAYS SEEN by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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