Fermilab

Fermilab - Batavia Illinois

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  • Discovery of the Electron

    Discovery of the Electron
    Joseph John Thomson discovers the electron using a cathode tube at the Cavendish laboratory in England. He later received the Nobel Prize in 1906

  • Founding

    Founding
    The labratory was founded on September 5, 1967 as the National Accelerator Labratory

  • Arbor Day

    Arbor Day
    Arbor day has been celebrated since 1969, and Fermilab also cares about wildlife. With there 6,800 acre land that study wildlife.

  • Proton Beam from Preaccelerator

    Proton Beam from Preaccelerator
    FermilabPhyisicst from Fermilab got a beam of protons from a preaccelerator. "The first and smallest of four cascaded accelerators which will comprise the complete 200 BeV accelerator"

  • Fermilab makes a Beam Monitor System

    The Monitoring system that measures the size, position, and intensity by an accelerator made by Fermilab. This helps control how much of a proton beam is needed.

  • Kobayashi and Maskawa predict existence 3 different Quarks

    Kobayashi and Maskawa predict existence 3 different Quarks
    Fermilab Discoveries
    The first one they said would be the fourth quark, named the charm quark. They also predicted the exisitence of 2 other quarks, bottom and top quark.

  • Renamed the Fermilab

    Renamed the Fermilab
    It was renamed to Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab for short) in Honor of Enrico Fermi.Who was a physicist that developed the first nuclear reactor.

  • Upsilon Discovery

    Upsilon Discovery
    A Group of scientist discover the upsilon particle, that contains a bottom quark and a anti-bottom quark

  • Bottom Quark Discovery

    FermilabWith the accelerator and the power of it, the bottom quark was discovered. Experiments were conducted in 1977 "with the 400 GeV Main Ring culminated in the discovery of the bottom quark"

  • Proton - Anti-proton collision

    Proton - Anti-proton collision
    Youtube Video
    Tevatron produces the first proton and anti-proton collision. The Physicists at Fermilab are the first to observe this.

  • Constructing Cosmic Ray Detectpr

    Constructing Cosmic Ray Detectpr
    Before people thought that cosmic rays come in different directions and times. Later in 2007 researchers discover that the most energetic rays come from the direction of active galactic nuclei.

  • Tevatron is Shutdown

    Tevatron is Shutdown
    The tevatron accelerator was not producing new and good information. It was waisiting money and Fermi lab needs money. Fermilab had agreed on shuting down Tevatron