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Plan for Discovery

What does the future hold for Fermilab? The laboratory's scientific strategy for the next two decades encompasses a suite of experiments and accelerator facilities that keep the laboratory, and the United States, at the forefront of particle physics research.

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Illinois Accelerator Research Center

At the Illinois Accelerator Research Center scientists and engineers from Fermilab, Argonne and Illinois universities will work with industrial partners to research and develop breakthroughs in accelerator science and translate them into applications for the nation's health, wealth and security.

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Fermilab's Plan for the Future

Fermilab's plan for the future outlines a diverse, world-leading research program that addresses the most important—and most challenging—questions related to research at the Energy, Intensity and Cosmic Frontiers.

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Physics for Everyone

Learn more about how Fermilab scientists search the cosmos, examine the tiniest known pieces of matter and generally help to discover the secrets of the universe at this monthly lecture series.

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New cooling system is a success

In 2009, Fermilab engineers went to work on a clever, yet tricky plan to rebuild the aging cooling system in the MINOS underground hall. Lee Hammond (photo), FESS, and Mike Andrews, AD, collaborated with the experimenters who use the hall to advance the plan. Ron Foutch, FESS, and Dave Featherston, PPD, managed the construction. Now the new system is up and running. After three weeks with the new system, the MINOS Hall is already cooler than expected. Gradually the system is dispelling the heat radiating from the surrounding rock and ground, which had been heating up over the last seven years and posed problems for the experiments in the hall.