Eli5: What advancements have been made as a direct result of the use of particle accelerators?

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I recently saw a Cleo Abrams video about particle accelerators and the lead scientist said that they use particle accelerators to create the building blocks for future innovations.

I’m sure advancements have been made only because particle accelerators exist but I don’t know any. Can someone highlight a direct influence particle accelerators have on our daily lives?

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A lot of extra inventions/innovations are done besides particle physics. For example the ceph storage software used to store the usage amount of data. They also did a lot stuff for Openstack
Also al the knowledge used to built those accelerators is not used only there.
I am sure I forget a lot

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