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The scans make up the largest dataset (as much as 300 terabytes per scroll) ever produced by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, a particle accelerator in Grenoble, France.—
Leigh Anne Miller,
ARTnews.com,
30 June 2026 The scans are made by synchrotron scanners, which are massive particle accelerators that can beam high-power x-rays at the object, revealing its inner layers down to the atomic level.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
26 June 2026 Behind him, hidden from view, was the world’s smallest proton particle accelerator.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026 For context, that is 30,000 times the energy that Earth's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is capable of achieving.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
28 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for particle accelerator