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collider

collider

12 9.1
A machine that makes two beams of tiny particles collide at very high speed
  • noun
  • /kəˈlaɪdər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : colisionador
  • And it is now a mainstay in the search for dark matter at colliders.
  • Hadron Collider
  • Super Collider
  • Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

The first colliders where you have two beams colliding head on.

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Examples

  • The Large Hadron Collider we have here was meant to investigate it.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • In this article, we focus on hadron colliders and particularly on the experimental techniques that have evolved with them.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Indeed, the Large Hadron Collider has already shown us that dark matter is likely...

  • The collider was never intended to generate antimatter.

  • My favorite part of the Large Hadron Collider is the source of protons.

  • For example, there is one at CERN, probably you have heard about it in Switzerland, Large Hadron Collider it's called.

  • High-energy electron-positron colliders have made great contributions to fundamental particle physics.

    Academic text (2012)
  • But the Large Hadron Collider would be powerful enough to excite the next set of vibrations, super particles, sparticles that may make up dark matter.

  • The Large Hadron collider generates high-energy collisions that allow scientists to study fundamental particles.

  • In experiments, researchers use a particle collider to observe the behaviors of quarks and leptons.

Synonyms

atom smasher
vscollider
  • Informal
2 6.0

A large machine scientists use to make tiny particles move very fast and hit each other

is the specific type that makes two beams collide head-on at high speed

How Powerful

collider
  • Specialized
12 9.1
synchrotron
  • Specialized
2 9.9
cyclotron
  • Specialized
3 9.9
accelerator
  • Specialized
48 7.1

Surface Forms

collider singular
colliders plural

Morphology

collider = collide (semi-transparent) = collide + er

The suffix '-er' typically indicates an agent noun, but the specialized meaning of a particle accelerator is not immediately obvious.

Etymology

Collider comes from Latin parts com- 'together' and laedere 'to strike'. Think of two things 'striking together', so a particle collider is a machine that makes tiny particles hit or crash into each other so scientists can see what happens.