: any of the subatomic particles (such as protons and neutrons) that are made up of quarks and are subject to the strong force
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Initially an electron-positron Higgs factory, subsequent upgrades would create a ~100+ TeV hadron collider.
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Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 11 Aug. 2025
The large hadron collider’s hefty computing requirements The LHC, a massive underground facility straddling the border of France and Switzerland, has been smashing particles together since 2008, revealing critical insights into the fundamental laws of physics.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2025
Because gluons are the carriers of the strong force, their effects are active only within length scales that are bounded by a typical hadron size, which is roughly the proton radius (that is, less than one femtometer).
—Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
But in the race for a theory of hadrons, the bootstrappers were overtaken.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
However, a muon collider might combine the strengths of hadron and e+e- colliders— and be faster and cheaper to build.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
And a linear collider can't be repurposed into a high-energy hadron collider afterward.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 June 2020
The second would upgrade the FCC-ee into a new hadron collider (FCC-hh) with an energy seven times that of the LHC.
—Yuen Yiu, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2019
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Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 11 Aug. 2025
The large hadron collider’s hefty computing requirements The LHC, a massive underground facility straddling the border of France and Switzerland, has been smashing particles together since 2008, revealing critical insights into the fundamental laws of physics.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2025
Because gluons are the carriers of the strong force, their effects are active only within length scales that are bounded by a typical hadron size, which is roughly the proton radius (that is, less than one femtometer).
—Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
But in the race for a theory of hadrons, the bootstrappers were overtaken.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
However, a muon collider might combine the strengths of hadron and e+e- colliders— and be faster and cheaper to build.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
And a linear collider can't be repurposed into a high-energy hadron collider afterward.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 June 2020
The second would upgrade the FCC-ee into a new hadron collider (FCC-hh) with an energy seven times that of the LHC.
—Yuen Yiu, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2019
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“Hadron.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hadron. Accessed 7 Sep. 2025.
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