14 Facts About Fermilab

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Since 2007, Fermilab has been operated by the Fermi Research Alliance, a joint venture of the University of Chicago, and the Universities Research Association .

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Fermilab is a part of the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor.

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Fermilab continues to participate in the work at the Large Hadron Collider ; it serves as a Tier 1 site in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid.

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Fermilab is the namesake of the site's high-rise laboratory building, whose unique shape has become the symbol for Fermilab and which is the center of activity on the campus.

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5.

Fermilab dismantled the CDF experiment to make the space available for IARC .

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6.

Fermilab strives to become the world leader in Neutrino physics through the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility.

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Fermilab will be the site of LBNF's future beamline, and the Sanford Underground Research Facility, in Lead, SD, is the site selected to house the massive far detector.

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The NO?A experiment uses, and the MINOS experiment used, Fermilab's NuMI beam, which is an intense beam of neutrinos that travels 455 miles through the Earth to the Soudan Mine in Minnesota and the Ash River, Minnesota, site of the NO?A far detector.

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Fermilab is continuing an experiment conducted at Brookhaven National Laboratory to measure the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the muon.

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LHC Physics Center at Fermilab is a regional center of the Compact Muon Solenoid Collaboration .

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11.

Fermilab is the host laboratory for USCMS, which includes researchers from 50 U S universities including 715 students.

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12.

High-energy physics community has expressed concern that the cost of major projects at Fermilab have led to diversion of funds from the high-energy physics core research program, harming the health of the field.

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In spring 2022, the Fermilab site reopened to the public for outdoor activities after closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

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14.

Several of the buildings and sculptures within the Fermilab reservation represent various mathematical constructs as part of their structure.

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