particle accelerator
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The researchers plan to aim a particle accelerator’s high-intensity beam of electrons at a cold and dense cloud of oxygen atoms to break the atoms apart. — Maria Lovato, BostonGlobe.com, "MIT physicists design an experiment to study the origin of oxygen in the universe," 27 Aug. 2019 Carbon requires a longer pathway to reach its optimal speed in a particle accelerator and thicker shielding to prevent leakage of radiation. — Michele Cohen Marill, WIRED, "Why a Promising, Potent Cancer Therapy Isn't Used in the US," 21 Aug. 2019 Fifteen years earlier, a political battle permanently halted construction of the Superconducting Super Collider, another particle accelerator that scientists wanted to build in Texas. — Jason Davis, NBC News, "A huge telescope in Hawaii could lead us to alien life. First it has to get off the ground.," 18 Aug. 2019 An engineer and constant inventor, Rubbia has spent part of the last three decades pursuing radically novel energy sources — such as a nuclear power reactor that is driven by a particle accelerator. — Quanta Magazine, "A Call for Courage as Physicists Confront Collider Dilemma," 7 Aug. 2019 But the benefits of building giant telescopes, particle accelerators, and the early internet were never objective and clear. — Anders Sandberg, Quartz, "We should stop sending humans into space to do a robot’s job," 19 July 2019 The models point to a process called inverse Compton scattering, in which the pulsar’s magnetic field whips up electrons to energies far higher than achieved in particle accelerators on Earth. — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, "Highest energy light ever seen traced to Crab Nebula," 8 July 2019 Some are practical, like the fact that the particle accelerator is still in development, and others are simply logistical. — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, "Why Fermilab is Making A Neutrino Detector 800 Miles Long," 12 Mar. 2019 The world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, has failed to find any of the hoped-for particles that would lead physicists beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. — Quanta Magazine, "How the Hidden Higgs Could Reveal Our Universe’s Dark Sector," 26 Sep. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'particle accelerator.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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