The Tevatron was a circular particle accelerator in the United States, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory east of Batavia, Illinois, and was the highest energy particle collider until the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was built near Geneva, Switzerland. The Tevatron was a synchrotron that accelerated protons and antiprotons in a 6.28 km circumference ring to energies of up to 1 TeV, hence its name, and was completed in 1983 at a cost of $120 million. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Significancewas the highest energy particle collider until the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was built near Geneva, Switzerland 1 Classification
StatusRetired or Decommissioned 1 FAQs
Why did the Tevatron stop running?
Budget cuts and the completion of the Large Hadron Collider ended it in 2011.
The Tevatron ceased operations on 30 September 2011, due to budget cuts and because the Large Hadron Collider had been completed.
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was the highest energy particle collider until the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was built near Geneva, Switzerland
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The Tevatron was a circular particle accelerator in the United States, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory east of Batavia, Illinois, and was the highest energy particle collider until the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was built near Geneva, Switzerland.
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The Tevatron was a circular particle accelerator (active until 2011) in the United States, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (called Fermilab), east of Batavia, Illinois, and was the highest energy particle collider until the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was built near Geneva, Switzerland.
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