Hadron collider

{{Short description|Type of particle accelerator}} 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2025-11-13 |title=The Large Hadron Collider |url=https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider |access-date=2025-11-15 |website=CERN |language=en}}</ref> 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 (ISR), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), in operation 1971–1984.<ref>{{cite arXiv |last=Hubner |first=Kurt |title=Design and construction of the ISR |date=2012-06-18 |class=physics.acc-ph |eprint=1206.3948}}</ref> * Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), CERN, used as a hadron collider 1981–1991.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-11-13 |title=The Super Proton Synchrotron |url=https://home.cern/science/accelerators/super-proton-synchrotron |access-date=2025-11-15 |website=CERN |language=en}}</ref> * Tevatron, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), in operation 1983–2011.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fermilab {{!}} Tevatron |url=https://www.fnal.gov/pub/tevatron/ |access-date=2025-11-15 |website=www.fnal.gov}}</ref> * Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), Brookhaven National Laboratory, in operation since 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-28 |title=NP Relativistic Heavy Ion Collid... {{!}} U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC) |url=https://science.osti.gov/np/Facilities/User-Facilities/RHIC |access-date=2025-11-15 |website=science.osti.gov |language=en-US}}</ref> * Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN, in operation since 2008.<ref name=":0" />

==See also== *Synchrotron

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