Fermilab Antimatter Lab to Hold Limited Tours

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."

Comments

If you can, GO!

[Engineer-Poet]

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.

TOURS ARE FULL

[hucke]

The tours are full - no more registrations are being accepted.

The answering machine on the phone number given in the Sun-Times article indicates that there is no more space available.

Re:The only people capable of producing antimatter

[erichill]

CERN has been producing antihydrogen with their Antimater Factory. To be fair, Fermilab has been making antihydrogen too.

Folks around the world have been producing antiparticles for quite some time. They're also created by natural processes, but don't last long in high matter density environments.