collider
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He said the gigantic collider would cost around $19.5 billion.
From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026
"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
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
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
With a mass 207 times an electron’s, a muon radiates far less energy as it goes in circles, so a muon collider could reach much higher energy than a circular e+e- machine.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 27, 2024
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