According to the latest statistics, more than 2,000 physicists and graduate students from nearly 200 research institutions in the U.S. and around the world come here to advance the understanding of the building blocks of matter. And so it remains. The latest statistics show that 753 scientists come here from 24 countries to probe the secrets of matter and antimatter. The experiments With the highest-energy accelerator in the world today, Fermilab is the center of the universe for particle physicists. It is not only a place where they conduct the latest experiments, but a place where scientists gather to collaborate on building new electronics, discuss the latest experimental results, or pore over a late night's calculations.
Experiments here are in various stages.
Further along are the upgrades for the CDF and DZero detectors, the colossal assemblies of intricate electronic devices that will home in on the Higgs boson once Run II begins. Other experiments have just started up. When protons began circulating again in the Tevatron earlier this summer, HyperCP started collecting data to look for CP violation in hyperons, particles that have at least one strange quark and are heavier than protons. KTeV resumed looking for CP violation as well, but in particles called kaons. Both experiments ran during Run I, but have upgraded their detectors to collect more data.