0 a machine for forcing particles (= extremely small pieces of matter) to hit each other at high speed so scientists can study what is produced
The shape of the collider is also important.
The collider is contained in a circular tunnel, with a circumference of 27 km, at a depth ranging from 50to 175 underground.
While formerly many particle colliders were designed specifically for electron-electron collisions, more recently electron-positron colliders have become more common.
For colliders (and collider experiments), it is the place where the beams interact.
This is one of the essential techniques for realizing a future electron-positron linear collider.
Because these particles only interact with the weak vector bosons, they are not directly produced at hadron colliders in copious numbers.
This means that a typical signal for a gluino at a hadron collider would be four jets plus missing energy.
Hadron collider physicists use another definition of transverse mass, in the case of a decay into two particles.
