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Article: Fermilab in race to land scientific whopper: Lab's future rides on winning collider worth up to $10 billion
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 30, 2006
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West suburban Fermilab is stepping up its efforts to land one of
the biggest and most expensive experiments in the history of science.
Fermilab is competing with two sites in Europe and one in Japan
for the International Linear Collider, a 28-mile-long machine that
would cost $4 billion to $10 billion.
If built at Fermilab, the collider would be housed inside a 15-
foot-wide tunnel more than 300 feet below the surface. Subatomic
particles would race down from opposite ends of the tunnel and smash
together in the middle.
Winning the project would keep Fermilab at the forefront of
worldwide research into the structure of matter and forces of the
universe. Landing the collider also would ...