How to Use collider in a Sentence

collider

noun
  • Yet the collider had not been turned on nor do videos of the tunnel show anyone present.
    Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Others wanted the United States to help push for the next big collider.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The incident briefly knocked out power to the collider.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2017
  • In the coming weeks, these groups will be making key steps toward restarting the collider.
    Aylin Woodward and Janet Babin, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2022
  • However, a muon collider might combine the strengths of hadron and e+e- colliders— and be faster and cheaper to build.
    Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
  • That linear collider, first built in the 1960s, was once SLAC’s reason for existing.
    IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Going by the running costs for the Large Hadron Collider, those costs for the new collider would probably amount to at least $1 billion per year.
    Sabine Hossenfelder, Scientific American, 19 June 2020
  • The collider is located more than 500 feet under the ground straddling the France-Switzerland border.
    Ed Hewitt, USA TODAY, 6 July 2017
  • As for the detectors, the injectors, the magnets, the thousands of tonnes of ultracold collider?
    Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022
  • To chill them, the collider uses 150 tons of liquid helium.
    Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Aczel skillfully weaves two histories: that of the science leading to the Large Hadron Collider, and that of the collider itself.
    Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2010
  • In November 2009, the LHC was also put out of a commission when bird dropped a piece of baguette into the system that keeps the collider from overheating.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Feb. 2017
  • This month, the scientists behind the FCC released a conceptual design report highlighting the goals of the collider and the process to build it.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 16 Jan. 2019
  • The collider cannot open up portals to other dimensions.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
  • Since the collider opened in 2008 its maximum energy was eight tera–electron volts (TeV).
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 26 June 2014
  • Libraries are like a kind of social collider: a space intended for people to freely cross paths with ideas and others unlike themselves.
    Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • It's estimated that the moon collider will use tens of terawatts of energy.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 June 2021
  • Scientists say the collider is not capable of creating a black hole, and there is no reason to believe one was produced.
    Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Gas carried by incoming colliders also set off more star formation in the Milky Way.
    Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Scientists observed the antiparticle for the first time in 1970 by producing it in a collider.
    Sophia Chen, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The main body of the collider is a giant ring over five miles in diameter and the entire facility employs thousands of people.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2018
  • So far, though, the small-is-beautiful approach has been no more successful than the big colliders in coming up with new phenomena.
    The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
  • One experiment used a particle collider, and the other used a prepared chip maze.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Europe is designing a new particle collider, three times larger than the LHC.
    Lorcan Roche Kelly, Bloomberg.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • These collisions -- made by smashing the particles together at mind-bending speeds to study them -- were made by the Tevatron collider in Illinois.
    CBS News, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The scientific case for a next larger collider is therefore presently slim.
    Sabine Hossenfelder, Scientific American, 19 June 2020
  • The lab is home to the Large Hadron Collider, the world's highest-energy particle collider, which was used to discover the famed Higgs boson particle in 2012.
    NBC News, 9 Mar. 2022
  • At the time of its completion in 1983, the Tevatron was an entirely new kind of collider, the first to use superconducting magnets to steer beams of particles along a circular track.
    Gregory Mone, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2012
  • In those colliders, physicists bash together the same particles in precisely the same way, trillions upon trillions of times.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Sep. 2015
  • Now, a major upgrade of one of its detectors combined with a recent boost in the collider's power promises to make the world's largest machine even better at unlocking the sub-atomic secrets of the universe.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Mar. 2017

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