particle accelerator
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The particle carried about 100,000 times more energy than anything ever produced by the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth.
From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 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
As a symbol of its owner, the hat alone sat on a particle accelerator for the cover of the first Physics Today magazine in 1948.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024
This is still not nearly powerful enough to see strings or curled-up dimensions—viewing strings would require a particle accelerator about 6,000,000,000,000,000 miles around.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
