The MINOS project at Fermilab. A beam of neutrinos is shot through the ground towards the Near Detector (not in picture) which is located in tunnel. Shown here is a white circle with a dot in the center to indicate where the neutrino beam exits the rock in the tunnel and heads toward the detector. The Far Detector is located in the Soudan Mine in Tower, MN.

At the Magnet Factory. To control the proton-antiproton beam very large magnetic fields are required (several Tesla). To produce a field of this magnitude requires very large electric currents which can only be sustained with Superconducting Electromagnet. An engineer talks to the group about how the magnets are fabricated.

A picture of the outside of Fermilab’s main office building – Wilson Hall

A cooling pool at Fermilab. Picture taken from the top of Wilson Hall

At Argonne National Labs, this is a gamma ray machine. There is a picture of the Hulk just outside the machine (not shown)!

The research and development of controlled nuclear fission, done by Enrico Fermi and his colleagues at Chicago, was performed at what would become Argonne National Labs

Students look at some old equipment from Argonne as they tour the museum.