Twenty Years of Tevatron Operation

Conference · Thu Jul 15 04:00:00 EDT 2004

OSTI ID:825898

Theilacker, Jay C ^[1]

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1. Fermilab

The superconducting Tevatron accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) has surpassed twenty years of operation. The Tevatron is still the highest energy particle accelerator in the world and will remain so until the commissioning of the LHC in Europe later this decade. The Tevatron has operated in a Fixed Target mode, accelerating a proton beam into stationary targets/detectors, as well as a Colliding Beam mode, continuously colliding counter rotating beams of protons and antiprotons. Upon completion, the Tevatron cryogenic system became the world's largest helium refrigeration system. In 1993, the Tevatron cryogenic system was given the designation of International Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The operational history, experiences and statistics of the Tevatron, with an emphasis on the cryogenic system, is presented. Improvements, upgrades and current challenges of the cryogenic system are discussed.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 825898
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-Conf-03/473-AD
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATORS
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COLLIDING BEAMS
COMMISSIONING
CRYOGENICS
ENGINEERS
FERMILAB ACCELERATOR
FERMILAB TEVATRON
HELIUM
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
PROTON BEAMS
PROTONS
REFRIGERATION
STATISTICS
TARGETS