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Fermilab
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (branded as Fermilab) is a national laboratory for high-energy particle physics, located in Batavia, Illinois, United States, near Chicago. It is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and operated by the University of Chicago through the subordinate Fermi Forward Discovery Group LLC.
Key facts
- Laboratory.name
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Laboratory.logo
- Fermilab logo.svg
- Laboratory.image
- Fermilab satellite.gif
- Laboratory.image_size
- 246
- Laboratory.caption
- A satellite view of Fermilab. The two circular structures are the Main Injector Ring (smaller) and Tevatron (larger).
- Laboratory.established
- (as National Accelerator Laboratory)
- Laboratory.budget
- $739 million (2024)
- Laboratory.type
- Accelerator physics
- Laboratory.research_field
- Accelerator physics
- Laboratory.director
- Norbert Holtkamp
- Laboratory.city
- Winfield Township, DuPage County, Illinois, United States
- Laboratory.address
- P.O. Box 500
- Laboratory.location_map
- USA Illinois
- Laboratory.nickname
- Fermilab
- Laboratory.affiliations
- United States Department of Energy
- Laboratory.operating_agency
- Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC
- Laboratory.nobel_laureates
- Leon Max Lederman
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Facility, Funder
- Founded
- 1967
- Location
- Batavia, United States
- Also known as
- Fermilab, National Accelerator Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, United States Department of Energy Office of Science Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.fnal.gov
- Image
- Fermilab.jpg
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- Fermilab
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- Fermilab
- API endpoint URL
- idp.fnal.gov/idp/shibboleth
- social media followers
- 811000
- inception
- 1967-11-21
- native label
- Fermilab
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Article
25 sectionsContents
- Laboratory directors
- Accelerators
- Tevatron
- Fermilab Accelerator Complex
- Proton improvement plan
- Experiments
- Discoveries by Fermilab experiments
- Evolution of the post-Tevatron experimental program
- On-site program in the 2020s
- List of recent past, ongoing, and planned experiments running on-site
- LBNF/DUNE
- About other neutrino experiments
- Muon g−2
- Delays, cost overruns, safety failures, and management turmoil in the 2010s and 2020s
- Oversight issues that developed between 2014 and 2024
- 2024 Whistleblower Report
- The shift to new management by the Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC, 2023-2025
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- Architecture
- Wildlife
- Tritium on site
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- References
- External links
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (branded as Fermilab) is a national laboratory for high-energy particle physics, located in Batavia, Illinois, United States, near Chicago. It is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and operated by the University of Chicago through the subordinate Fermi Forward Discovery Group LLC.
Fermilab's Main Injector, two miles (3.3 km) in circumference, is the laboratory's most powerful particle accelerator. The accelerator complex that feeds the Main Injector is under upgrade, and construction of the first building for the new PIP-II linear accelerator began in 2020. Until 2011, Fermilab was the home of the 6.28 km (3.90 mi) circumference Tevatron accelerator. The ring-shaped tunnels of the Tevatron and the Main Injector are visible from the air and by satellite.
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