high-energy physics
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of high-energy physics
First recorded in 1960–65
Example Sentences
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"It's an ideal project for the MSU high-energy physics group."
From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025
High-energy physicists at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois—DOE’s only high-energy physics lab—are gearing up to build a massive neutrino experiment.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 9, 2022
Other work established links between the geometric program and high-energy physics.
From Scientific American • Mar. 21, 2022
The federal government has long backed major research projects like particle accelerators for high-energy physics in the 1960s and supercomputing centers in the 1980s.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2020
Nor could dispensers of government patronage merely weigh scientific projects against one another: the cost of high-energy physics had become so great that broader priorities were implicated.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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