Meanings of particle smasher in English

We're talking about the Large Hadron Collider, the largest subatomic particle smasher in the world.

What is a particle smasher?

Three years later, our planet remains intact, but the European particle smasher may have made its first crack in modern physics.

Some of these particles are 100 million times more energetic than those produced at the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle smasher on Earth.