Word: fermilab
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This power to go back 15 billion years in time has touched off one of the most heated competitions in the history of science, a race that pits Europe's LEP against U.S. entries led by the powerful Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) near Chicago and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California. Huge teams of physicists at the rival centers are working day and night to discover the next new particle and to explain the behavior of those already found. In recent years, each lab has had its share of triumphs...
...CAPTION: Fermilab's Tevatron...
...Fermilab. The machine most likely to find the top quark first is Fermilab's mighty Tevatron, which has been operating for 6 1/2 years beneath the waving grasses of the Illinois prairie. In the Tevatron, strong magnets guide subatomic particles through a circular tunnel that is 6.4 km (4 miles) in circumference. The accelerator is built as a ring so that particles can go around the track again and again, picking up speed with each lap. The ring was built large so that the particles would not have to make sharp turns...
...physicists from a number of weapons laboratories and Southeastern universities, which until now have not been powers in the field of particle physics. Observers expect he will run the experiment in the strictly hierarchical fashion he has displayed at CERN. At the same time, physicists from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Fermilab, Argonne National Laboratory and Japan are drawing up a collaboration that will be run along the more democratic lines of Fermilab. The clash of cultures between the CERN and Fermilab styles of management may make the sociology of the SSC nearly as interesting as the science...