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

XLight plans to build massive “free electron lasers” powered by a particle accelerator to create a more powerful and precise light source for use in chip fabrication plants, or fabs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

They are created by nuclear fusion reactions in the sun, radioactive decay in nuclear reactors or the Earth's crust or in particle accelerator labs.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

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

From BBC • Apr. 9, 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