On 14 May the Fermilab accelerator reached 500 GeV, 212 times greater than the original design energy of the accelerator. The machine had been operating normally at 400 GeV for some time, an energy just reached by the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron on 17 June. At 500 GeV Fermilab continues to have the highest‐energy accelerator in the world.

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