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collider

/ kəˈlaɪdə /

noun

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

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But so far, none of them have collided with dark matter, said Dr. Abigail Kopec, an Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, who works with the collider’s data.

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There’s just one catch: Nobody knows whether a muon collider can actually be built.

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Device could help facilitate the operation of new particle colliders, such as the Electron-Ion Collider.

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However, the science that the future collider could generate remains largely unknown.

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So why do they need an even larger hadron collider?

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