atom smasher
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The one-time industrial powerhouse shut the atom smasher by the late 1950s; it sold the surrounding 10 acres in 2013.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
“I was cruising through YouTube and saw some kids getting into the atom smasher and exploring it,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
And it needed the world’s biggest atom smasher CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to produce the extreme surge of energies simulating those 1 trillionth to 2 trillionths of a second after the Big Bang.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2024
He arrived in 2013, 2 years after its flagship atom smasher, the Tevatron, shut down, ceding the 2012 discovery of the famous Higgs boson to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 21, 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
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