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Leading US particle-physics lab faces uncertain future

Several organizations are vying for the contract to manage Fermilab, after it received failing grades from the US Department of Energy.
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  1. Dan Garisto
Fermilab, a national laboratory of the Department of Energy in Batavia, Illinois.

The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is located about 65 kilometres west of Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Michelle Litvin/New York Times/Redux/eyevine

The future of US particle physics is in limbo as its central institution, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), continues to receive mixed grades and its management is put up for grabs.

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Nature 626, 242-244 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00150-4

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