Wednesday, 5 October 2011

US Atom Smasher Tevatron Accelerates Its Last Particle

Published September 30, 2011| FoxNews.comThe "God particle" may have to wait.The Tevatron, a once-cutting edge Chicago-area particle accelerator run by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and played a key role in the quest for the Higgs Boson or "God particle" was shut down for the last time Friday afternoon at 3:40 p.m. EDT. "We're thinking of it as if we're pulling the plug on our favorite uncle," said Roger Dixon, who heads the accelerator division at Fermilab, on Thursday.Helen

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