particle accelerator

noun

: accelerator sense d

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This allows for much more powerful and efficient magnets at the heart of CAT scanners, particle accelerators, some power transmission networks, and, wait for it, electric motors. —

David Szondy, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2024 Yet generations of ever more sensitive experiments meant to find these particles have come up empty, and particle accelerators have also seen no sign of them. —

Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2024 Everything Ongoing Efforts to Prove the Higgs Boson Beginning in the late 1980’s physicists started developing plans to build a particle accelerator capable of detecting the Higgs boson. —

Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024 Today, 23 nations participate in CERN, the international physics laboratory that operates the world’s most advanced particle accelerator. —

Paul Scharre, TIME, 14 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for particle accelerator

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1945, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of particle accelerator was in 1945

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