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

Making this discovery required a multibillion-dollar particle accelerator, thousands of scientists across dozens of countries, and papers with multipage author lists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 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

Pallab Ghosh goes inside the largest particle accelerator in the world - which discovered the Higgs boson.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 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