Article: U. of C. to bid for Fermilab: School hopes to bring new accelerator to site.

Byline: Jon Van

Aug. 23--For more than 20 years Fermilab in Batavia has held bragging rights both impressive and arcane: It is home to the world's most powerful atomic particle accelerator, the Tevatron. But Fermilab will lose that title next year when a new machine in Switzerland and France fires up. Moreover, with the Tevatron scheduled to shut down in 2010 it means that America's longstanding leadership in particle physics will slip away to Europe and Asia. It also signals the likely end of Fermilab and its 2,000 jobs and $315 million annual operating budget. Administrators at the University of Chicago don't want to see that happen, and their first step in ...

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