(particle physics) A particle accelerator in which two beams of high-energy particles are allowed to collide head-on, resulting in high center-of-mass energies. Also known as collider.
colliding-beam accelerator
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 | circular collider (nucleonics) |
| luminosity monitor (nucleonics) |
| 1973 (chronology) |
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