atom smasher
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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
The photons were traced to 12 cosmic ray factories capable of PeV accelerations—100 times more energetic than collisions at the world’s most powerful atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider.
From Science Magazine
On Jan. 28, 1939, the team fired up the atom smasher and got the same results.
From Washington Post
It’s a way to visit the far-off atom smasher without putting down your phone.
From Washington Post
It had been shipped from the University of California, Berkeley, where it had been part of Ernest Lawrence’s ‘atom smasher’ — one of the first particle accelerators, known as the 37-inch cyclotron.
From Nature
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