What are the costs of particle physics research?
The Fermilab budget for FY2001 is $277 million, or about 10% above the total value of the contract Alex Rodriguez signed with baseball’s Texas Rangers in January 2000. The FY01 budget for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, which administers the system of 17 DOE national laboratories (Fermilab and 16 others), is $3.18 billion. That’s a lot of money, but here’s a comparison: the proposed FY01 defense funding levels for basic and applied scientific research, development, test and evaluation are $6.02 billion for the U.S. Army; $9.22 billion for the U.S. Navy; and $13.76 billion for the U.S. Air Force, for a total of $29 billion in scientific research for defense. Thus, the total funding for all 17 national laboratories is about 11percent of the R&D budget for defense. The funding for the entire field of U.S. High-Energy Physics is $726 million; the annual budget for CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, is about $617.7 million (converted fr
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