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A 'collider' is a type of a particle accelerator with two opposite beams of the particles.
In particle physics one gains knowledge about elementary particles by accelerating particles to very high kinetic energy and letting them impact on other particles. For sufficiently high energy, a reaction happens that transforms the particles into other particles. Detecting these products gives insight into the physics involved.
To do such experiments there are two possible setups:
★ 'Fixed target setup': A beam of particles (the ''projectiles'') is accelerated with a particle accelerator, and as collision partner, one puts a stationary target into the path of the beam.
★ 'Collider': ''Two'' beams of particles are accelerated and the beams are directed against each other, so that the particles collide while flying into opposite directions.
The collider setup is harder to construct but has the great advantage that according to special relativity the energy of an inelastic collision between two particles approaching each other with a given velocity is not just 4 times as high as in the case of one particle resting (as it would be in non-relativistic physics); it can be orders of magnitude higher if the collision velocity is near the speed of light.
Colliders may either be ''ring accelerators'' or linear accelerators.
★ Large Hadron Collider
★ Very Large Hadron Collider
★ Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
★ LHC - The Large Hadron Collider on the web
★ The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
In particle physics one gains knowledge about elementary particles by accelerating particles to very high kinetic energy and letting them impact on other particles. For sufficiently high energy, a reaction happens that transforms the particles into other particles. Detecting these products gives insight into the physics involved.
To do such experiments there are two possible setups:
★ 'Fixed target setup': A beam of particles (the ''projectiles'') is accelerated with a particle accelerator, and as collision partner, one puts a stationary target into the path of the beam.
★ 'Collider': ''Two'' beams of particles are accelerated and the beams are directed against each other, so that the particles collide while flying into opposite directions.
The collider setup is harder to construct but has the great advantage that according to special relativity the energy of an inelastic collision between two particles approaching each other with a given velocity is not just 4 times as high as in the case of one particle resting (as it would be in non-relativistic physics); it can be orders of magnitude higher if the collision velocity is near the speed of light.
Colliders may either be ''ring accelerators'' or linear accelerators.
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See also
★ Large Hadron Collider
★ Very Large Hadron Collider
★ Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
External links
★ LHC - The Large Hadron Collider on the web
★ The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
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