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Fermilab is the home of the highest energy particle accelerator in
the world,
the TEVATRON. The TEVATRON is a superconducting synchrotron that is four miles
in circumference.
This enormous machine is fed matter and anti-matter from a complex chain of
seven other accelerators that stretch over 9000 meters in length and consume
energy at a rate of 30 MW.
There are two basic kinds of accelerators: linear and
circular. Fermilab has both. Six of Fermilab's accelerators are circular
machines called synchrotrons.
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