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Article: Collision course; With the advent of a powerful European rival, Fermilab will no longer be the world's state-of-the-art tool for particle physics research. Can the lab keep its edge?(Technology)(international particle physics research)
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- Crain's Chicago Business
- Article date:
- November 10, 2003
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Byline: PAUL MERRION
After more than three decades of searching for the origins of the universe, Fermilab is struggling to find its future. The center of gravity for international particle physics research will soon shift from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Batavia to CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland.
Already constrained by tight budgets, Fermilab needs to define a new mission soon. Failing that, one of the high-tech superstars not only of the Chicago region but the world will be relegated to a supporting role.
"Obviously, we're very concerned about it,'' says Samuel Skinner, the Chicago ...