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Fermilab Antimatter Lab to Hold Limited Tours

Posted by michael on from the no-free-samples dept.

chigun writes "Fermilab is shutting down its normal operations for maintenance for 9 weeks and during this time will be conducting tours of its facilities. The fact that they are the only people capable of producing antimatter is pretty cool as well."

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  1. If you can, GO! by Engineer-Poet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have been through the CDF at Fermilab. It is an awe-inspiring experience to see a device, bigger than many houses, devoted to investigating the smallest and most fleeting events currently open to human inspection. The huge sliding shield doors which separate the beam line from the zones which are human-safe during operation will give you some idea of how big, and dangerous, small can be.

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  2. The only people capable of producing antimatter? by Zutroy+Of+Earth · · Score: 2, Interesting

    > The fact that they are the only people capable of producing antimatter is pretty cool as well.

    Could you elaborate on that ? I mean, as was mentionned in the article, positrons are used daily in the numerous PET clinics all over the world. In fact, I'm using some for an experiment right now (indirectly of course, since I'm using F18, which decays by emitting a positron :) And it was all produced on site! Were you talking about direct production?

    I'll have to read more on that I guess :)