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
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
A particle accelerator at Fermilab in Illinois, meanwhile, cost $260 million merely to refit.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
