collider
Particle smashing machine
A collider is a device or thing that collides with something else.
In physics, a particle collider accelerates subatomic particles to near light speed and smashes them together, revealing fundamental properties of matter: The Large Hadron Collider discovered the Higgs boson.
In video games and software, a collider is an invisible boundary that detects when objects touch or overlap.
Speed control mechanism
- synchrotronCircular charged-particle accelerator
- cyclotronSpiral-path particle accelerator
- detectorDevice that senses
- magnetObject producing attractive field
tunnel · vacuum · cryogenics · beam · ring · injector · linac · superconducting
Quark-containing subatomic particle
- protonPositive nuclear particle
- electronNegative subatomic particle
- positronElectron's antimatter counterpart
- neutronUncharged nuclear particle
quark · lepton · boson · muon · neutrino · gluon · fermion · meson
European nuclear research organization
- LHCMassive subatomic collision facility
- SLACLinear particle accelerator facility
- CMSWeb publishing platform
- ALICEEarly AI chat program
laboratory · infrastructure · underground · Geneva · Brookhaven · upgrade · commissioning
Bosons mirror fermions theoretically
- quantumSmallest discrete unit
- luminosityIntrinsic brightness of source
- decayGradual organic breakdown
- interactionReciprocal action between parties
Systematic investigation procedure
- discoveryAct of finding something
- detectionAct of finding something
- measurementDetermining size or amount
- analysisMethodical study of parts
collaboration · scientist · breakthrough · publication · data · signal · background · event
accelerator
Speed control mechanism
- synchrotronCircular charged-particle accelerator
- cyclotronSpiral-path particle accelerator
- detectorDevice that senses
magnet · tunnel · vacuum · cryogenics · beam · ring · injector · linac · superconducting · dipole
hadron
Quark-containing subatomic particle
- protonPositive nuclear particle
- electronNegative subatomic particle
- positronElectron's antimatter counterpart
neutron · quark · lepton · boson · muon · neutrino · gluon · fermion · meson · baryon
CERN
European nuclear research organization
- LHCMassive subatomic collision facility
- SLACLinear particle accelerator facility
- CMSWeb publishing platform
ALICE · laboratory · infrastructure · underground · Geneva · Brookhaven · upgrade · commissioning
supersymmetry
Bosons mirror fermions theoretically
- quantumSmallest discrete unit
- luminosityIntrinsic brightness of source
- decayGradual organic breakdown
experiment
Systematic investigation procedure
- discoveryAct of finding something
- detectionAct of finding something
- measurementDetermining size or amount
analysis · collaboration · scientist · breakthrough · publication · data · signal · background · event · simulation
- high energygamma rays, cosmic rays, particle accelerator, synchrotron, neutrinos
- Big ScienceCERN, LHC, particle accelerator, synchrotron, particle physics
- particle physicsquark, quarks, lepton, leptons, boson
- collision shapeshitbox, bounding box, capsule
- acceleratorsparticle accelerator, linear accelerator, cyclotron, synchrotron, linac
- Nuclearnuclear reactor, atomic bomb, nuclear energy, atomic bombs, uranium
- Large Hadron ColliderCircular particle accelerator beneath Switzerland
- particle colliderDevice accelerating subatomic matter
- hadron colliderDevice smashing subatomic particles