atom smasher
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Senkewitz still remembers the day in 2015 when the atom smasher fell.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
He doesn’t like seeing the fallen atom smasher, he said.
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
