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

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

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

Published last week in Physical Review Letters, the method should be widely useful, including in making predictions to be tested at the world’s biggest atom smasher, Europe’s Large Hadron Collider.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2022

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