How to Use particle accelerator in a Sentence

particle accelerator

noun

• In the post-war years, particle accelerators grew from the size of squash courts to the size of cities, particle detectors from the scale of the table top to that of the family home.
  — The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
• The main tool scientists had used there was a large particle accelerator that streamed electrons for a wide range of tests.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• The real one died on the night of the particle accelerator explosion, and the one roaming about now is simply a Mirror copy.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2021
• 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, 27 Aug. 2019
• But the universe is still the biggest and cheapest particle accelerator of them all.
  — Yulia Grigoryants, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2020
• This is not the right time for a bigger particle accelerator.
  — Sabine Hossenfelder, Scientific American, 19 June 2020
• And that would mean the big particle accelerator would only need to be 6 feet, and an enormous and pricey collection of magnets wouldn’t be necessary at all.
  — The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
• There may yet be a number of baby-LIGOs installed in small particle accelerators around the world.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2018
• The price of big-ticket instruments like a space telescope or particle accelerator can be as high as $10 billion.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• Like Niowave’s, this method starts with a particle accelerator.
  — The Economist, 23 Nov. 2019
• The sun is a particle accelerator, a ball of plasma, a self-sustaining thermonuclear reactor, a gale of mass and energy, the source of all life.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
• The Turing test is a fantastic probe—something like a particle accelerator in physics.
  — Rob Toews, Forbes, 24 July 2022
• Third, thinking as a group lets us tackle projects that simply elude the grasp of one person, such as operating a navy vessel or a particle accelerator.
  — Matthew Hutson, WSJ, 24 May 2021
• The Jefferson Lab particle accelerator, where the work took place.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
• Intriguing insights are afoot: -- Earth's most powerful particle accelerator has fired up for the third time to unlock more secrets of the universe.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 July 2022
• The isotopes are made on another mesa, by a linear particle accelerator that shoots rare metals with proton beams.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2020
• Oh, and not just any X-rays: For many proteins, the X-rays need to be produced by a massive, stadium-sized circular particle accelerator called a synchrotron.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2020
• The facility is home to a particle accelerator, which would be the source of the radioactive material.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2019
• The district, shaped like a cocktail shrimp, arcs between O’Hare Airport and the particle accelerator at Fermilab.
  — Kyle Peterson, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
• Heat things up—in a big bang or particle accelerator—and massive force-carriers might become massless.
  — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 3 June 2022
• Only a large particle accelerator, though, can produce such a beam.
  — Henrik Knudsen, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
• Protons and neutrons are familiar as tiny solids, but particle accelerators can melt them into what’s called a quark-gluon plasma, or QGP.
  — Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2018
• Ten years ago, the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, found the Higgs boson particle, helping to explain the big bang theory and how the universe was formed.
  — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2017
• Thanks to a bit of help from a particle accelerator, scientists have discovered an unusual amulet interred with a 2000-year-old mummy.
  — Colin Barras, Science | AAAS, 24 Nov. 2020
• In July, the center ramped up the LHC to slam particles together at the highest energy ever reached in a particle accelerator.
  — Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2022
• So this one Russian scientist stuck his head in a particle accelerator.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2012
• 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, 8 July 2019
• Freese suspects the strong force would join them if particle accelerators could reach energies high enough to simulate the even hotter, even younger universe in which the particles mediating the strong force would appear.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2023
• Science News’ Katherine Bourzac reports that the researchers used a particle accelerator known as a synchrotron to scan the plates with high-energy X-ray beams and unearth their chemical makeup.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 10 July 2018
• And, as of last month, scientists have made another curious addition to the list: the smallest particle accelerator yet.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024