Tevatron Collider Program - Physics, Results, Future?

Abstract

An overview of more than 25 years of the Tevatron Collider program at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, near Chicago, Illinois, USA, is presented. The physics goals of the program itself, the Tevatron accelerator design characteristics and some of its achievements are described. A selected set of the past and ongoing physics analyses and measurements performed by CDF and D0 collaborations are summarized. Also, in view of the modified plans and schedule of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the future of the Tevatron program is discussed.Comment: Presented at Cracow Epiphany Conference of the First Year of the LHC, Cracow, Poland, January 1012, 201