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Article: 'X' marks Fermilab future: A proposed $500 million particle accelerator could help it land an even bigger project.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- August 20, 2007
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Byline: Jeremy Manier
Aug. 20--Fermilab is floating plans for a new $500 million particle accelerator in hopes of paving the way for a much larger project and shoring up the lab's fragile position in the world of high-energy physics.
A road map for the machine, dubbed "Project X" for now, was quietly disclosed last week in the lab's daily newsletter. The new device would become the biggest project at the Batavia facility after the scheduled shutdown in 2009 of the Tevatron, currently the world's most powerful accelerator studying the fundamental structure of the universe.
Fermilab's long-range ambition is to host a mammoth project called the ...