A large and expensive scientific instrument used by physicists to accelerate elementary particles (such as protons or electrons) to speeds near that of light, for the purpose of investigating the fundamental properties of matter; sometimes also called an atom smasher, since the particles thus accelerated are often directed at targets of atoms which are fragmented by the impact into their more fundamental component particles.
machine for boosting particles to nearly light speed and slamming them together in order to probe the structure of matter.
device used to accelerate electrons, protons, and alpha particles and other ions to very high speeds
Any machine or natural object that can accelerate charged particles, such as electrons, positrons or protons to relativistic speeds.
a device that uses electric and/or magnetic field s to propel electrically charged particle s to high speed s
a machine that uses electric fields and magnetic fields to accelerate a beam of subatomic particles to generate ionizing radiation that in turn is used for cancer therapy, research, analysis or isotope production
a machine used to accelerate charged particles, such as electrons and protons, to very high speeds
a type of microscope into the subatomic realm and bigger and more powerful machines equate to higher particle collision energies and a more accurately-tuned and detailed picture
A machine that, using electromagnets, can accelerate moving charged particles, giving them more energy.
any machine capable of accelerating electrons, protons, deuterons, or other charged particles in a vacuum and of discharging the resultant particulate or other radiation into a medium at energies usually in excess of 1 MeV.
a device used to accelerate nuclear particles to very high speeds.
A machine that imparts extremely high velocity to elementary particles such as electrons and protons. There are different types of accelerators, including cyclotrons, microtrons, Dynamitrons, Rhodotrons, synchrotrons, and linear accelerators.
For the DC Comics Superhero also called Atom Smasher, see Albert Rothstein.
