Supercollider
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A Supercollider is a high energy particle accelerator
Particle accelerator
A particle accelerator is a device that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to high speeds and to contain them in well-defined beams. An ordinary CRT television set is a simple form of accelerator. There are two basic types: electrostatic and oscillating field accelerators.In...

. The term may refer to:
  • Superconducting Super Collider
    Superconducting Super Collider
    The Superconducting Super Collider was a particle accelerator complex under construction in the vicinity of Waxahachie, Texas that was set to be world's largest and most energetic, surpassing the current record held by the Large Hadron Collider. Its planned ring circumference was with an energy...

    , planned 80 km project in Texas, canceled in 1993
  • Tevatron
    Tevatron
    The Tevatron is a circular particle accelerator in the United States, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , just east of Batavia, Illinois, and is the second highest energy particle collider in the world after the Large Hadron Collider...

    , a circular particle accelerator in Illinois, finished in 1983 and expected to operate until 2010. Largest collider in the world until the Large Hadron Collider went online
  • Large Hadron Collider
    Large Hadron Collider
    The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It is expected to address some of the most fundamental questions of physics, advancing the understanding of the deepest laws of nature....

    , which began operations in September 2008
  • Super Large Hadron Collider
    Super Large Hadron Collider
    The Super Large Hadron Collider is a proposed upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider to be made after around ten years of operation...

    , a proposed upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider to be made around 2012
  • Very Large Hadron Collider
    Very Large Hadron Collider
    The Very Large Hadron Collider is a name for a hypothetical future hadron collider with performance significantly beyond the Large Hadron Collider....

    , a hypothetical future hadron collider with no target date


Supercollider may also refer to:
  • SuperCollider
    Supercollider
    A Supercollider is a high energy particle accelerator. The term may refer to:* Superconducting Super Collider, planned 80 km project in Texas, canceled in 1993...

    , programming language released in 1996 for audio synthesis
  • Supercollider, a post-rock
    Post-rock
    Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...

     musical group from the 1990s
  • Super Collider (band)
    Super Collider (band)
    Super_Collider is a collaborative effort between Jamie Lidell and Cristian Vogel that formed in 1998. The duo released two critically acclaimed albums – Head On in 1999, and Raw Digits in 2002 - before their growing solo careers pushed the project on hold for the foreseeable future.This band should...

    , an electronic and soul-revivalist musical group formed in 1998
  • Supercollider, character in the 2002 Freedom Force videogame
  • Supercollider, 2002 show by Keith Tyson
    Keith Tyson
    Keith Tyson is a British artist. In 2002, he was the winner of the Turner Prize. His work is concerned with an interest in generative systems, and an embrace of the complexity and interconnectedness of existence...

     at the South London Gallery
  • A song by Fountains of Wayne
    Fountains of Wayne
    Fountains of Wayne is an American power pop band that formed in New York City in 1996. The band consists of members Chris Collingwood, Adam Schlesinger, Jody Porter and Brian Young.-Early years:...

  • A song by DJ Eco & The Yellow Chair
  • "Supercollider (song)", a song by Radiohead
    Radiohead
    Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992...

    released on April 16th, 2011
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