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Atom-Smasher Retires; Lab Makes Career Switch

When scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced last month that they might have discovered a new elementary particle or fundamental force of nature, it was likely the swan song of the labs Tevatron accelerator, once the most powerful atom-smasher in the world.
With the 25-year-old Tevatron scheduled to shut down in September, Fermilab in Batavia, one of the Chicago areas premier research institutions with a budget of almost $400 million, will narrow its focus to less expensive experiments as it explores other uncharted areas of physics.
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Mystery signal at Fermilab hints at 'technicolour' force

The physics world is buzzing with news of an unexpected sighting at Fermilab's Tevatron collider in Illinois a glimpse of an unidentified particle that, should it prove to be real, will radically alter physicists' prevailing ideas about how nature works and how particles get their mass.
The candidate particle may not belong to the standard model of particle physics, physicists' best theory for how particles and forces interact. Instead, some say it might be the first hint of a new force of nature, called technicolour, which would resolve some problems with the standard model but would leave others unanswered.
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New force of nature?

Data from a major US atom smasher lab may have revealed a new elementary particle, or potentially a new force of nature, one of the physicists involved in the discovery said on Wednesday.
The physics world was abuzz with excitement over the findings, which could offer clues to the persistent riddle of mass and how objects obtain it -- one of the most sought-after answers in all of physics.
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On Monday morning, October 14, 1985, the Accelerator Division's Early Bird report, issue no. 1177, stated: "A fitting conclusion to this year's run has been the successful production, accumulation, and acceleration of antiprotons to 800 GeV, and the detection of proton-antiproton collisions in the CDF Detector at B0."
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Most physicists at Illinois-based Fermilab, home to the world's most powerful particle collider, share a dream. They hope against hope that the Tevatron will find the long-sought Higgs particle before the much more powerful Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN the European particle-physics laboratory outside Geneva, Switzerland comes along in a year or so and eats their lunch. Bruce Knuteson, though, has a fear. What if the LHC finds something even more exotic than the Higgs and the tell-tale traces of that novelty turn out to have been lurking, unrecognised, in Fermilab's data for years?
It is to rule out the chance of his worst fears coming true, among other things, that Knuteson and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Fermilab have taken a new sort of particle-hunting software to a new level. Rather than looking only at data in which a new particle is expected to be found, as the experiments at Fermilab normally do, it looks at a much broader swath of data without any preconceptions.

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