Life after Tevatron: Fermilab Still Kicking Even Though It Is No Longer Top Gun
By John Matson | January 31, 2012 | Fermilab is dead. Long live Fermilab! The Tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., which had been the top U.S. particle collider—and for many years the most powerful such machine in the world—shut down last September. The collider’s physics breakthroughs, including the 1995 discovery of the top quark,…