atom smasher
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Potential buyers have balked when they learned the property came with an atom smasher.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
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
Or, if physicists are lucky, the world’s biggest atom smasher, Europe’s Large Hadron Collider, will blast some new particle into plain view when it comes back online next spring after 3 years of upgrades.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 15, 2021
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
