Hadron collider
A hadron collider is a very large particle accelerator built to test the predictions of various theories in particle physics, high-energy physics or nuclear physics by colliding hadrons. A hadron collider uses tunnels to accelerate, store, and collide two particle beams.Colliders
Only a few hadron colliders have been built. These are:
- Intersecting Storage Rings, European Organization for Nuclear Research, in operation 1971–1984.
- Super Proton Synchrotron, CERN, used as a hadron collider 1981–1991.
- Tevatron, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, in operation 1983–2011.
- Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, Brookhaven National Laboratory, in operation since 2000.
- Large Hadron Collider, CERN, in operation since 2008.
