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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Peoples became a project manager in 1981 for the lab’s Tevatron collider, a 4-mile ring on the lab site where collisions of particles occurred until it was shut down in 2011.
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Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2025
The second possible explanation is the existence of a natural particle collider around the galactic cluster.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 July 2025
Now scientists at the world’s largest particle collider have observed a new class of antimatter particles breaking down at a different rate than their matter counterparts.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 16 July 2025
That has led scientists to propose and plan even larger and more powerful particle colliders to explore this as-yet undiscovered country of physics.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 June 2025
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Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2025
The second possible explanation is the existence of a natural particle collider around the galactic cluster.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 July 2025
Now scientists at the world’s largest particle collider have observed a new class of antimatter particles breaking down at a different rate than their matter counterparts.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 16 July 2025
That has led scientists to propose and plan even larger and more powerful particle colliders to explore this as-yet undiscovered country of physics.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 June 2025
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“Collider.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collider. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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