particle accelerator

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The particle carried about 100,000 times more energy than anything ever produced by the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

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

The particle accelerator towered over this Pittsburgh suburb built to house Westinghouse workers, and was a symbol of innovation for the company and region.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

As a symbol of its owner, the hat alone sat on a particle accelerator for the cover of the first Physics Today magazine in 1948.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 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