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Fermilab’s director reassures staff

JAN 20, 2011
Physics Today
Beacon-News : At an all-hands meeting yesterday, Fermilab’s director Pier Oddone reassured the assembled staff that the lab’s future was bright, even though funding for a proposed three-year extension for the lab’s main machine, the Tevatron, fell through last week. Now, Oddone said, Fermilab would commit itself to the plan that was in place before the Tevatron extension became a possibility: to explore the intensity frontier, where the lab’s ability to generate large numbers of particles could reveal rare and elusive events.
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