How to Use particle accelerator in a Sentence

particle accelerator

noun
  • This is not the right time for a bigger particle accelerator.
    — Sabine Hossenfelder, Scientific American, 19 June 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
  • But the universe is still the biggest and cheapest particle accelerator of them all.
    — Yulia Grigoryants, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Like Niowave’s, this method starts with a particle accelerator.
    — The Economist, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Then the writers came in with the particle accelerator, and then Dwayne had the one about the slaughtering of pigs.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2024
  • Only a large particle accelerator, though, can produce such a beam.
    — Henrik Knudsen, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
  • The plan was to blast particles at extreme speeds through an underground ring called a particle accelerator.
    — Samia Bouzid, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Heat things up—in a big bang or particle accelerator—and massive force-carriers might become massless.
    — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 3 June 2022
  • 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
  • One way to do that is to create a series of particle accelerator stations in orbit around the Sun’s equator.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • But attempts to detect them in space or create them in particle accelerators have so far been unsuccessful.
    — Tom Siegfried, JSTOR Daily, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Instead of alchemy, scientists used the world’s largest particle accelerator to crash beams of lead ions into each other at near-light speed.
    — George Petras, USA Today, 17 May 2025
  • So this one Russian scientist stuck his head in a particle accelerator.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2012
  • The gang heads back to the particle accelerator one last time, and in true Evil fashion, something wild happens with no concrete answer.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 23 May 2024
  • 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 operators of the world’s largest particle accelerator have a plan to at last unlock the most stubborn mysteries of physics.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The Turing test is a fantastic probe—something like a particle accelerator in physics.
    — Rob Toews, Forbes, 24 July 2022
  • 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
  • The Universe, as well as Earth, remains safe from any current or planned particle accelerators.
    — Big Think, 5 Mar. 2026
  • All of these events could act as particle accelerators, but the prime suspects in this case are supermassive black holes with masses millions or billions of times that of the sun.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • That’s why the team looked into particle accelerators, such as the one at CERN.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Behind him, hidden from view, was the world’s smallest proton particle accelerator.
    — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
  • 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
  • They can also be made using particle accelerators.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The Jefferson Lab particle accelerator, where the work took place.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The facility is home to a particle accelerator, which would be the source of the radioactive material.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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, 1 Mar. 2024

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