noun
definition
Any of several forms of particle accelerator in which two opposing beams of particles collide.
definition
A model of the shape of an object for purposes of collision detection.
Examples of collider in a Sentence
There are two main design proposals for the future linear collider.
In Europe, LEP, at CERN near Geneva, is the highest-energy electron-positron collider in the world.
The high energy makes the Tevatron the only collider capable of directly producing and thereby measuring the properties of the massive top quark.
The application of the phenomenology has been extended to experiments at the electron-proton collider HERA in Hamburg.
This research is done with the Tevatron collider at Fermilab near Chicago, using the CDF detector, together with Sinead Farrington.
We have made the world's first measurement of exclusive c c production at a hadron collider.
Many aspects of quantum chromodynamics are presently probed in particle collider experiments.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate fundamental physics.