Definition of supercollider in English:
supercollider
nounsuːpəkəˈlʌɪdəˈso͞opərkəˌlīdər
Physics A collider in which superconducting magnets are used to accelerate particles to energies of millions of megavolts.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is used mainly in cars, planes, bridges, computer chips, artificial body parts and in supercolliders, like the particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland.
- A supercollider is in fact being built: the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
- In particle physics, the loss of the supercollider project has relegated America to a back seat in the quest to understand the structure of matter.
- He pauses, then adds, ‘The good thing is that in finance we don't have to build [particle] supercolliders.’
- Regrettably, the American superconducting supercollider project was cancelled, but a European accelerator called the large hadron collider will begin operating at a lab in Geneva, Switzerland (called CERN) around 2005.