particle accelerator
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The LHC is a giant particle accelerator built in a 27km-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss border.
From Science Daily • May 26, 2026
Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world's biggest particle accelerator.
From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026
Making this discovery required a multibillion-dollar particle accelerator, thousands of scientists across dozens of countries, and papers with multipage author lists.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
The particle accelerator, built at a cost of $10bn, was the most powerful yet.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2024
A particle accelerator at Fermilab in Illinois, meanwhile, cost $260 million merely to refit.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
