From Duke Today, July 17, 2019: Teams behind the 1995 discovery are recognized for first observations of tiny but hefty particle at the heart of matter.
Tevatron
The CDF and DZero collaborations at Fermilab announced the discovery of the top quark in 1995, the final undiscovered quark of the six predicted by theory. The biannual prize is given for an outstanding contribution to high-energy and particle physics.
Physicists often find thrifty, ingenious ways to reuse equipment and resources. What do you do about an 800-ton magnet originally used to discover new particles? Send it off on a months-long journey via truck, train and ship halfway across the world to detect oscillating particles called neutrinos, of course. It’s all part of the vast recycling network of the physics community.
Planning the next big science machine requires consideration of both the current landscape and the distant future.
IEEE recognizes the industrial innovations made possible by the design and construction of superconducting magnets for the Tevatron collider.
The magnet, a 20-foot-long dipole built for the Tevatron, appeared in the conference’s accelerator magnets exhibit.
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.
The reunion was a chance not only to talk about the Tevatron’s achievements, but also to present new results from the full data set.
The tag says it all. This piece of history was found in the Tevatron tunnel.
This quadrupole-dipole Fermilab logo can be found on the floor of the Tevatron tunnel.