Article: Collisions at high energy. (research using Tevatron collider at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Collisions at high energy

The Tevatron collider at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., flings protons against antiprotons at collision energies adding up to 1.8 trillion electron-volts. Completed last year and billed as the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the collider is starting to provide data for researchers, who sift through the debris from head-on collisions in search of exotic subatomic particles (SN: 9/28/85, p.202; 3/22/86, p.180).

The researchers are looking for evidence of the "top" quark, a rapidly decaying subatomic particle and the only member of the quark family not yet detected. A reported sighting in ...

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