particle accelerator

noun

: accelerator sense d

Examples of particle accelerator in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Amaterasu particle, named for the Japanese sun goddess, was first detected in 2021, carrying 40 million times more energy than particles accelerated by the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). —Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Feb. 2026

Said man, Carter Cho, seems to have got stuck in the loop following an accident inside a top-secret particle accelerator. —Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026

Neutron stars also have some of the strongest magnetic fields known in the universe — up to 10 trillion times the power of a refrigerator magnet, and enough turn gamma rays into electrons and positrons in a way manmade particle accelerators cannot hope to do, NASA explained. —Adam Harrington, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026

In 1995, a particle dubbed the top quark turned up at the Tevatron, a particle accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), in Illinois. —IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

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