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{{Image|Tevatron steve krave 800w.jpg|right|350px|Inside the Tevatron (Fermilab near Batavia, IL) in 2012, a year after it was decomissioned}} | |||
The '''Tevatron''' was a circular particle collider built at Fermilab near Batavia, Illinois. It ran from 1987 to 2011 and provided enormous amounts of | The '''Tevatron''' was a circular particle collider built at Fermilab near Batavia, Illinois. It ran from 1987 to 2011 and provided enormous amounts of | ||
insight into the world around us. It has since been eclipsed by the LHC, a proton-proton collider at CERN on the border of Switzerland and France. | insight into the world around us. It has since been eclipsed by the LHC, a proton-proton collider at CERN on the border of Switzerland and France. |