The Sacred Sword - Radioactive Contamination At Fermilab In 1986
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 12:40
in Astronomy & Space
In a guest post written three years ago Giorgio Chiarelli told us the story of how the CDF detector saw its first proton-antiproton collisions, during the night of October 13th 1985. It was a very important moment for the history of the collaboration, the start of a data collection campaign that would last over a quarter of a century. Below I wish to tell you the story of one of the worst radiological incidents in the history of the experiment, which happened a few months after those first collisions were recorded.--- read more