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
In order to overcome these difficulties, the research team used state-of-the-art technology: the Synchrotron particle accelerator in Grenoble.
From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
