Particle accelerator
- A machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to nearly light speed and to contain them in well-defined beams
Collider research
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Collider in which superconducting magnets are used to accelerate particles to energies of millions of megavolts
- They travel on tracks underground some such as the LHC (large hadron collider) as large as 17 miles in a loop
- Once particles reach a high speed they are the slammed into another particle
- The LHC hurls beams of protons and ions at a velocity approaching the speed of light
- This will cause the beams to collide with each other, and then record they resulting events caused by the collision
- Scientists hope that these events will tell us more about how the universe began and what it’s made of