The Tevatron is a circular particle accelerator in the United States , at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ( also known as `` Fermilab '' ) , just east of Batavia , Illinois , and holds the title of the second highest energy particle collider in the world , after the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ) near Geneva , Switzerland .
The Tevatron was a circular particle accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ( also known as Fermilab ) , just east of Batavia , Illinois . It was the second highest energy particle collider in the world after the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ) .