Fermilab is America’s particle physics and accelerator laboratory.
Since 1967, Fermilab has worked to answer fundamental questions and enhance our understanding of everything we see around us. As the America’s particle physics laboratory, we do science that matters. We work on the world’s most advanced particle accelerators and dig down to the smallest building blocks of matter. We also probe the farthest reaches of the universe, seeking out the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
Fermilab’s employees include scientists and engineers from all around the world. Fermilab collaborates with more than 50 countries on physics experiments based in the United States and elsewhere.
Fermilab’s 6,800-acre site is located in Batavia, Illinois, and is managed by Fermi Forward Discovery Group for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. FermiForward is a partnership of the University of Chicago and Universities Research Association, and includes integrated subcontractors, Amentum and Longenecker & Associates.
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Vision and mission
Our vision is to serve as world-leader in neutrino and particle physics, pushing the frontiers of foundational discovery, opening new avenues of science and transforming results into technologies that benefit society.
Our mission is to design, build and operate world-leading accelerators and detectors; drive scientific collaboration for broader benefits; and develop advanced technologies emerging from foundational research to serve society.