Tevatron

The Tevatron is a circular particle accelerator in the United States, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). It is the second highest energy particle collider in the world after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The Tevatron is a synchrotron that accelerates protons and antiprotons in a 6.28 km (3.90 mi) ring to energies of up to 1 TeV, hence its name. The Tevatron ceased operation in 2011.

The Sensors on underground magnets in the Tevatron are capable of detecting minute seismic vibrations from earthquakes thousands of miles away. The Tevatron recorded vibration spikes emanating from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, the 2005 Sumatra earthquake, New Zealand’s 2007 Gisborne earthquake, the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the 2010 Chile earthquake.

It was in news in later half of 2011, as Fermilab announced the discovery of a possible new particle after a new non-Higgs particle appeared in their data. Later the claim was taken back.