Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia near Chicago, Illinois, (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Batavia,+IL&ll=41.830497,-88.264546&spn=0.045871,0.047619&t=k&hl=en Google Sat Map) is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics, operated for the Department of Energy by the http://www.ura-hq.org/ Universities Research Association (URA). URA is a consortium of 90 leading research oriented universities primarily in the United States, with members also in Canada, Japan, and Italy.