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Article: FERMILAB ANTICPATES THE FUTURE
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- The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)
- Article date:
- December 14, 1997
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BATAVIA -- Fermilab will cease to be the world's most powerful particle accelerator, probably in 2005.
But the high energy physics lab won't sit idle.
When physicists throw the proverbial switch on a particle accelerator seven times more powerful than Fermilab's at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland, administrators Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory here hope to have bigger, better plans in the works.
And when they mean big, they mean big.
Fermilab technicians already are researching a plan for an oval accelerator that could be 90 to 300 miles in length extending off the laboratory campus.
For comparison, the circumference of Kane County is approximately 100 miles.
John Peoples, ...