Large Hadron Collider

noun

1. a particle accelerator at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics near Geneva containing a circular underground tunnel 27km (16.8 miles) in circumference, around which two streams of hadrons are sent in opposite directions before being brought together in a high-energy collision LHC

Example Sentences

Eventually, the world’s biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, blasted some of those bosons into fleeting existence, cementing Higgs’s explanation of how fundamental particles get mass.

From Science Magazine

Prof Higgs retired from the University of Edinburgh in 2006, but he continued to watch developments at Cern in Geneva, where scientists were using the Large Hadron Collider to look for the Higgs boson.

From BBC

But it would be almost 50 years before the particle’s existence could be confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider.

From Seattle Times

And it needed the world’s biggest atom smasher CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to produce the extreme surge of energies simulating those 1 trillionth to 2 trillionths of a second after the Big Bang.

From Seattle Times

With normal experiments, using the Large Hadron Collider, for example, new particles can be detected up to a metre from the collision.

From BBC