ilab). Fermilab is home to the Tevatron, a particle accelerator capable of producing 1TeV. This is mainly due to the fact that all the magnets used in the accelerator are super conductive, meaning no loss of energy and interesting magnetic properties! If this was not enough the accelerator is a storage ring collider accelerator. This means two sets of particles are rotate in opposite directions around the ring, then collides the two sets of particles. This effectively means a collision of at least 2TeV will occur when two particles collide.
The science of particle accelerators and the results obtained from them are at the cutting edge of physics. The instruments used to detect particles are at least three stories high. The data they produce when particles collide is equivalent to 10,000 copies of the Encyclopaedia Britannica per second. This means mammoth computers that don't run Windows. The scientists analysing the data are so amazingly imaginative that they come up with names like 'weakon' and 'koan'. Most worryingly they have already worked out the properties of undiscovered particles.