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TIME: 11:00 AM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

This is from the New Muon Lab. This area will soon house a small scale test accelerator. It is to test the feasibility of making a large scale linear accelerator out of superconducting radio frequency cavities, which could someday could lead to a new generation of accelerators.

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TIME: 10:15 AM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

Another one from the Meson Lab. There had to be hundreds of miles of this ribbon wire throughout the lab.

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TIME: 10:15 AM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

The next stop was Meson Lab. This building houses the testing area for new accelerator technologies are tested and a test beam area where new detector ideas are tried, tested and calibrated.

In case anyone is curious, yes - the reflection was intentional!

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TIME: 09:45 AM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

The PBar Tunnel (or Anti-Proton Tunnel). This tunnel has two accelerators that are used to store and re-inject the antimatter particles back into a bigger accelerator (named the Tevatron), where they are forced to collide with Protons. These mater and antimatter collisions happen at point around the Tevatron where giant detectors record the events.

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TIME: 09:15 AM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

This was building AZero - In this building Fermilab is testing new ways of making beams for acceleration. Inside the cave is this test set-up called the Photo Injector. In the Photo Injector a laser is used to strike a cathode and make particles that can then be used to make a beam.

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TIME: 09:00 AM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

Although I have many photos inside the buildings at Fermilab, one of the things that struck me most was the integration of science and nature throughout the 6,800 acre site.

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TIME: 07:50 AM
PLACE: Fermilab
SUBJECT: Photowalk

My first stop was Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall (Wilson Hall), the central laboratory building, it was built between 1971 and 1974. The design was acknowledged in 1975 with an award from the Society of American Registered Architects. The building was named for Wilson on September 18, 1980.

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