Mista Sparkle
Tevatron
The now defunct Tevatron at Fermilab. The Tevatron was the most powerful accelerator ever built with a collision energy of 1.8TeV. Superconducting magnets, such as the red one seen near the floor, bend beams of charged particles around the 4 mile circumference of the accelerator. There were two experiments, CDF and DØ, located on the Tevatron where the protons and antiprotons, circling at 99.999954% the speed of light were made to collide with each other, sending off all sorts of collision fragments. The different fragments can be studied to determine the behavior of particles, or new particles of unknown types.
This collider ran from 1987 to 2011 and provided enormous amounts of insight into the world around us. It has since been eclipsed by the LHC, a proton-proton collider at CERN on the border of Switzerland and France.
Tevatron
The now defunct Tevatron at Fermilab. The Tevatron was the most powerful accelerator ever built with a collision energy of 1.8TeV. Superconducting magnets, such as the red one seen near the floor, bend beams of charged particles around the 4 mile circumference of the accelerator. There were two experiments, CDF and DØ, located on the Tevatron where the protons and antiprotons, circling at 99.999954% the speed of light were made to collide with each other, sending off all sorts of collision fragments. The different fragments can be studied to determine the behavior of particles, or new particles of unknown types.
This collider ran from 1987 to 2011 and provided enormous amounts of insight into the world around us. It has since been eclipsed by the LHC, a proton-proton collider at CERN on the border of Switzerland and France.