When Fermilab ’s Tevatron came online in 1983 , it was the most powerful subatomic particle gas pedal in the Earth . Since then , the collider has made countless contributions to the playing field of particle cathartic — the most illustrious being its role in the 1995 discovery of the top quark , the last of the six quarks in the Standard Model of particle cathartic . Now , it ’s about to shoot its last particle beams .
In 2009 , the bigger , quicker , and more powerful Large Hadron Collider at CERN superseded the Tevatron in just about every mode imaginable . Since then , the LHC has mostly taken over the Tevatron ’s search for the last remaining while of the Standard Model of physics — the elusive Higgs boson . And today , owing to budgetary restraint within the US Department of Energy , the Tevatron ’s dual particle beams will be powered down for the last time .
A unrecorded webcast of the shutdown will be broadcastherebeginning at 2:45 EDT .
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