atom smasher
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Officials say they’re on board with standing up the atom smasher, but caution the plan hasn’t been formally approved.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
“I was cruising through YouTube and saw some kids getting into the atom smasher and exploring it,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
Published last week in Physical Review Letters, the method should be widely useful, including in making predictions to be tested at the world’s biggest atom smasher, Europe’s Large Hadron Collider.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2022
The atom smasher near Geneva, Switzerland, is most famous for demonstrating the existence of the Higgs boson in 2012, a discovery that slotted into place the final keystone of the current classification of elementary particles.
From Scientific American • Aug. 11, 2021
If that were so, the reign of the cyclotron as sciences most powerful and effective atom smasher might be a brief one.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
