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Tevatron takes a final bow

After 28 years of extraordinary scientific discovery, the Tevatron collider at Fermilab, Illinois will shut down today, 30 September 2011.

The record breaking atom smasher has contributed to the development of the next generation of high energy physics experiments, giving valuable experience to hundreds of engineers, computer scientists, physicists and technicians who have gone on to take leading roles in other international particle physics collaborations. In the UK, eight universities have been involved in experiments on the Tevatron: Glasgow, Imperial College, Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford and UCL.
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Tevatron atom smasher shuts after more than 25 years

One of the world's most powerful "atom smashers", at the leading edge of scientific discovery for a quarter of a century, is about to shut down.
The Tevatron facility near Chicago will fire its last particle beams on Friday after federal funding ran out.
Housed in a 6km-long circular tunnel under the Illinois prairie, the Tevatron leaves behind a rich scientific legacy.
This includes finding nature's heaviest elementary particle: the top quark.
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Shutdown Event

All employees and users are invited to watch a broadcast of the activities that will take place in the CDF and DZero control rooms and in the Main Control Room as the collider and experiments are shut down. Fermilab Director Pier Oddone will host the broadcast, which will begin at 2 p.m. Employees and users are invited to watch the broadcast from Ramsey Auditorium. The broadcast will also be available online.
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Higgs boson 'hints' also seen by US lab

A US particle machine has seen possible hints of the Higgs boson, it has emerged, after reports this week of similar glimpses at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) laboratory.
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Panel probes new particle results

The head of the US' biggest particle physics lab has appointed an expert committee to establish whether or not a new, unanticipated particle has been detected by scientists.
Such a discovery, hinted at by experts in April, would mark one of the most radical changes to physics in years.
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Lack of long-term preservation plan threatens to leave key information inaccessible for future analysis.

Four months before the Tevatron shuts down for good, physicists at Fermilab's giant particle collider near Batavia, Illinois, are pulling out all the stops to collect every last bit of data that they can. But some worry about what will eventually happen to the trove of data - approaching 20 petabytes (20×10^15 bytes) - amassed over the machine's 26-year life. Although there is funding to continue sifting the data for traces of the Higgs boson and other subatomic prizes for the next five years, so far there is no plan and no budget for preserving them in the longer term.
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A US "atom smasher" may get three more years of life in order to continue its hunt for the so-called God particle.
The Tevatron accelerator could now remain operational until 2014, as physicists there now think the Higgs boson is within their reach.
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