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What is a collider?

What is a collider? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) Any of several forms of particle accelerator in which two opposing beams of particles collide.
  2. (video game) A model of the shape of an object for purposes of collision detection.
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Such is the case at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Long Island, NY, for example.
You need to smash two beams head-on in a collider, because the center-of-mass energy is the sum of the energies in the two beams.
The team behind the Large Hadron Collider is now examining its options to determine whether or not the problem will cause a delay of days or months.
That thumping noise is my biological clock chundering like a box of Pampers trapped in the Hadron Collider.
In a popular article for collider, Stemwedel outlined what she saw as a young woman working in a lab.
But it was not until 2012 that the Large Hadron Collider would prove his theory on how fundamental particles get their mass.

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