Slowly but Steadily,Fermilab Pushes the Upgraded Tevatron toward Its Design Goals

摘要

Fermilab has a window of opportunity.Its 2-trillion-electron-volt proton-antiproton Tevatron collider is,at present,the world's highest-energy particle accelerator-the only one with a shot at finding the elusive Higgs boson or direct indications of supersymmetry.But it will hold on to its monopoly only until the complection of CERN's 14-TeV Large Hadron Collider,which is better poised to make such findings.The LHC is currently scheduled to turn on in 2007,although it is running into some problems (see PHYSICS TODAY,May 2002,page 30).