Large Hadron Collider

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

Example Sentences

The particle's existence was confirmed in 2012 by scientists using the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland.

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However, in more than 10 years of observations there has been no evidence to support this idea, even using the Large Hadron Collider as some had hoped.

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“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.

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The scientists started by analyzing data from proton-proton collisions at Europe's Large Hadron Collider, but they also wanted to look at the "cleaner" data produced by electron-proton collisions.

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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.

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