particle accelerator

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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

XLight plans to build massive “free electron lasers” powered by a particle accelerator to create a more powerful and precise light source for use in chip fabrication plants, or fabs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

Another micro-quasar, V4641 Sgr, produced gamma rays reaching 0.8 PeV, identifying it as another "super PeV particle accelerator."

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2025

The disaster is for a sociologist what a particle accelerator is for a physicist.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2024

The Superconducting Super Collider, a multibillion dollar project that was contemplated until the early 1990s, was going to be the most powerful particle accelerator ever built.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife