particle accelerator
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At the facility, a synchrotron particle accelerator generated an intense X ray beam capable of scanning many specimens quickly.
From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 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
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
Pallab Ghosh goes inside the largest particle accelerator in the world - which discovered the Higgs boson.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2024
One comes from Germany, with a man in short leather pants on it and the message: Great particle accelerator; one from Nevada, with a cactus and the note, Interesting life forms.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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