atom smasher
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Potential buyers have balked when they learned the property came with an atom smasher.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
Senkewitz still remembers the day in 2015 when the atom smasher fell.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
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
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
Eventually two other Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
