Fermilab's accelerator is capable of producing proton and anti-proton beams with an energy of 1 TeV (1000 GeV). If memory serves, the LHC that they are currently building at CERN will be capable of producing energies of 7TeV when it comes online. The SSC I believe was going to produce beams of 40TeV, obviously, way ahead of its time.

A new main injector was just commissioned at Fermilab. Although it didn't increase the energy of the beam, when it is fully calibrated, it shoud allow them to produce 10 times as many collisions as before, increasing the chances of detecting rare events.

When I was in college, a guy gave a talk on the construction of the SSC. With its high energy, he said it would be, "Powerful enough to produce God in pairs." (NOTE : Please don't start a religious flame war over this old joke [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Rob