Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics.

What is Fermilab famous for?

Today, Fermilab is known for its world-leading accelerator-based neutrino research program, the development and construction of particle accelerators, its contributions to research at the Large Hadron Collider and its particle astrophysics program.

Why did Fermilab shut down?

The closure is a consequence of tight US physics funding and the advent of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Europe's high-energy physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC broke the Tevatron's record for collision energy in 2009 and has been running steadily since 2010.