Fermilab’s first Latin American scientists came to the lab in 1983, when four researchers from Brazil traveled across the equator to work on experiment E691. Carlos Escobar was one of them. It was the beginning of a collaboration spurred by a bold proposition by Director Leon Lederman.
Fermilab played the leading role in creating a new approach in cosmological research, one that involved the fusion of modern particle physics and astronomical cosmology.
Peoples will offer a sweeping retrospective on the pioneering machine, from its start as a fixed-target proton accelerator to its operation as a high-luminosity 2-TeV proton-antiproton collider.