Fiasco at Fermilab

摘要

In recent years the U.S. national laboratories have laid out an ambitious research agenda for particle physics. About 170 scientists and engineers at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., have been developing designs and technologies for the International Linear Collider (ILC), a proposed machine that would explore the frontiers of high-energy physics by smashing electrons into their antimatter counterparts [see "Building the Next-Generation Collider," by Barry Barish, Nicholas Walker and Hitoshi Yamamoto; Scientific American, February 2008].