Tevatron The Subatomic Particle Accelerator Shuts Down
“Other people have had to turn off their colliders for the same reason that we’re having to turn ours off now: There’s a bigger, better game in town,” says Steve Holmes of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., the preeminent particle physics lab in the United States and home to the Tevatron.
Even after shutting it down the task will not be over. The large amount of data recorded over the years requires considerable attention and it will not be an easy job to do. “Now that we’re stopping taking data, we can concentrate all of our energy on updating our analyses,” say Giovanni Punzi, a spokesman for the Tevatron’s Collider Detector at Fermilab.
During its long run it is believed that Tevatron produced data that will reveal great secrets about the subatomic particles. The results will light up the information about the Higgs boson, the particle that is thought to give mass to other particles. The information will further be used by The LHC, the sole contender in this field to carry out further operations.