The Collaborative International Dictionary
collider \col*lid"er\ n. (Physics) a particle accelerator in which two separate beams of particles (usually of opposite charge) are circulated in opposite directions and directed so as to collide head on. This technique allows the production of collisions of higher energy than would be possible with a single beam produced by the same device.
Syn: particle collider; colliding-beam accelerator; colliding-beam machine. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
colliding-beam machine \colliding-beam machine\ n. (Physics) a particle accelerator in which two separate beams of particles (usually of opposite charge) are circulated in opposite directions and directed so as to collide head on; -- called also colliding-beam accelerator and collider.
Note: This technique allows the production of collisions of higher energy than would be possible with a single beam produced by the same device.
Syn: particle collider; colliding-beam accelerator; collider.
Wiktionary
n. (context physics English) Any of several forms of particle accelerator in which two opposing beams of particles collide
WordNet
n. an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on
Wikipedia
A collider is a type of particle accelerator involving directed beams of particles. Colliders may either be ring accelerators or linear accelerators, and may collide a single beam of particles against a stationary target or two beams head-on.
Colliders are used as a research tool in particle physics by accelerating particles to very high kinetic energy and letting them impact other particles. Analysis of the byproducts of these collisions gives scientists good evidence of the structure of the subatomic world and the laws of nature governing it. These may become apparent only at high energies and for tiny periods of time, and therefore may be hard or impossible to study in other ways.
Collider is a studio album, released in 2003, by the Australia-based New Zealand rock band Fur Patrol. It peaked at 31 on the New Zealand album chart.
In statistics, a variable is termed a collider when it is the outcome of two (or more) variables (that may or may not themselves be correlated) (See Figure 1). The name "collider" reflects the fact that in graphical models, the arrow heads from variables that lead into the collider appear to "collide" on the node that is the collider
The result of having a collider in the path is that the collider blocks the association between the variables that influence it.
Thus in the example shown on the right, "controlling" for the collider will cause the correlation between predictors X and Y to be biased ( Berkson's paradox). The collider in this way "blocks" the association between its predictors.
Colliders can confound attempts to test causal theories: By' "controlling" for what they consider to be a background variable such as education, researchers can unwittingly inducing false correlations among the variables of interest, and thus risk promoting theories for which there is in fact no support.
A collider is a type of particle accelerator.
Collider may also refer to:
- Collider (band), an electroclash punk rock band formed in New York City in 1997
- Collider (Cartel album), 2013
- Collider (Fur Patrol album), 2003
- Collider (Sam Roberts album), 2011
- Collider (film), a 2013 film
- Collider (epidemiology), a statistical variable
- Collider.com, film website
Collider is the fourth studio album from Canadian rock musician Sam Roberts, released on May 10, 2011. It is the first album released under the moniker "Sam Roberts Band" instead of "Sam Roberts". Collider features several guest musicians, including Elizabeth Powell (of fellow Montreal band Land of Talk) on "Longitude", percussionist Ben Massarella (of Califone), and woodwind player Stuart D. Bogie (of Antibalas). The album cover art is an altered take on the standard model of the Theory of Everything(TOE)
The first Canadian single, "I Feel You", was released to Canadian radio on February 28, 2011, and made commercially available via iTunes Canada on March 8, 2011. An edited version of the song was made available for free online listening. Its video debuted on MuchMusic May 21. The first American single, "The Last Crusade", was made available for listening online on March 21, 2011. " Without A Map" was released as the second official single in August, with its video released in November.
The album debuted at No. 3 on the Canadian Albums Chart, with first week sales of 7,000 copies. The album was nominated for Rock Album of the Year at the 2012 Juno Awards.
Collider (sometimes referred as Collider World) is a 2013 Irish- Portuguese co-produced drama/ science fiction film distributed by beActive Entertainment. The film acts as the core for a transmedia project developed for various platforms.
The world premiere was scheduled for January 10, 2014, taking place in Dublin.
Collider was an electroclash punk rock band formed in New York City in 1997 by singer and keyboardist Jed Davis and guitarist Sean Gould. The duo's combination of electronic beats and synthesizers with rock guitars and pop song structure made Collider an early entrant to the Electroclash movement. In fact, as the genre had not yet been named, Davis and Gould referred to their style as "electropunk".
Between 1997 and 1999, Collider performed regularly across New York state but concentrated mainly on Manhattan's Lower East Side. In addition to frequent gigs at CBGB, the Mercury Lounge and the Spiral, the duo also played monthly at Coney Island High.
Collider's first two albums, Blowing Shit Up (1998) and Physics (1999), were released by New York label Eschatonality, the latter in conjunction with MP3.com.
In 2000, Davis and Gould added a rhythm section of Chris DeRosa on Drums and Tom Kaz on Bass and toned down the electronic elements as the band moved towards straightforward punk rock. In this form, the band came to the attention of Joey Ramone, who invited Collider to open for him at what would be his final CBGB appearance, on October 18, 2000. This version of Collider was also the support act when Living Colour reunited at CBGB on December 21, 2000.
In 2002, with a new rhythm section of Mike Keaney (bass) and Joe Abba (drums), Collider signed with SonaBLAST! Records and recorded a 6-song EP, WCYF, with original Ramones drummer and producer Tommy Ramone producing. WCYF would be the first album produced by Tommy Ramone since The Replacements' Tim in 1985.
This version of Collider served as the live backing band for Maverick Records singing duo The Deuce Project in 2003, and as a session group for a number of singers and duos in New York City and Boston, Massachusetts. Davis and Gould disbanded Collider in 2004 in order to pursue other projects.
Usage examples of "collider".
Conversely, even if superpartner particles are not found by the Large Hadron Collider, this fact alone will not rule out string theory, since it might be that the superpartners are so heavy that they are beyond the reach of this machine as well.
American attempt to do some quick physics with Z and W bosons and skim off the cream before the LEP Collider at CERN started running in the late 1980s.
Captain Picard and Enrak Grof beamed down to aquiet, nondescript corridor in the tail of the collider.
The intention of the collider was to let scientists probe “the ultimate nature of matter,” as it is always put, by re-creating as nearly as possible the conditions in the universe during its first ten thousand billionths of a second.
True, other nations might try to build atom smashers capable of producing the same sorts of energies unleashed by the LHC, but the first set of visions had shown a world of plentiful Tachyon-Tardyon Colliders, and still, it seemed, visions couldn’t be invoked easily.
Along with the fifty-four miles of Collider were sixteen more miles of injection devices: the Linear Accelerator, the modest Low Energy Booster, the large Medium Energy Booster, the monster High Energy Booster, the Boosters acting like a set of gears to drive particles into evermore frenzied states of relativistic overdrive, before their release into the ferocious grip of the main Super Collider ring.
He gazed at the tiny streak in the photograph and wondered what his buddies in the Harvard physics department would say when he told them he'd spent the weekend hanging out in a Large Hadron Collider admiring Z-particles.
Disoriented, jet-lagged, she glimpsed Fermilab itself, the perfect circle of the collider ring set amid green tallgrass prairie, presumably replanted.