collider

British

/ kəˈlaɪdə /

noun

physics a particle accelerator in which beams of particles are made to collide

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collider

He said the gigantic collider would cost around $19.5 billion.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

By using the molecular environment as a microscopic stand-in for a particle collider, they confined the radium atom's electrons and increased the likelihood that some would briefly pass through the nucleus.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2025

"In a way, the molecule acts like a giant particle collider and gives us a better chance to probe the radium's nucleus."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2025

I saw a 2013 documentary about CERN, which features a shot of an engineer bicycling through the LHC tunnel during a collider shutdown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

For that task a 10-TeV muon collider might have an edge over a 100-TeV proton collider.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 27, 2024

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