collider
noun
col·lid·er
kə-ˈlī-dər 
: a particle accelerator in which two beams of particles moving in opposite directions are made to collide
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Rebuilding a collider The engineers will also take apart the long-running STAR detector, a tracker that captured RHIC’s first collisions in 2000, as well as the newer sPHENIX detector.
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026
Tevatron collider was the most precise to date.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
Essentially, this is why physicists use miles-long particle colliders that accelerate particles to enormous energies.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
Their words of caution were ignored (fortunately, in retrospect), and enterprising experimentalists embarked on a journey that would take nearly half a century, and the construction of three powerful colliders, to bear fruit.
—Mariangela Lisanti, Twin Cities, 27 Mar. 2026
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026
Tevatron collider was the most precise to date.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
Essentially, this is why physicists use miles-long particle colliders that accelerate particles to enormous energies.
—Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
Their words of caution were ignored (fortunately, in retrospect), and enterprising experimentalists embarked on a journey that would take nearly half a century, and the construction of three powerful colliders, to bear fruit.
—Mariangela Lisanti, Twin Cities, 27 Mar. 2026
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“Collider.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collider. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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