Large Hadron Collider

British  

noun

1.  LHC.  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

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Large Hadron Collider

It is based on the documentary of the same name about the discovery of the Higgs boson — the “God particle” — at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

That makes them about seven orders of magnitude, or 10 million times, more energetic than particles accelerated inside the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 9, 2026

To chase them down, the Large Hadron Collider sends particles whizzing around an underground ring at phenomenal speeds until they smash into each other.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

“This class of ideas has become less popular because when we turned on the Large Hadron Collider, we did not see evidence of supersymmetry,” Slatyer told Salon in a video call.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2024

Emmanuel Roth arrives in Geneva on 29 January 2016 to destroy the Large Hadron Collider, the site of the groundbreaking discovery of gravitons, without which time travel would be impossible.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson