The phrase
"colliding protons" means that tiny particles called protons are being brought together forcefully so that they crash into each other. Scientists do this to create powerful reactions and study what happens afterwards.
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«colliding»
«proton»
Sentences with «colliding protons»
- Evidence of the minuscule droplets was extracted from the results of colliding protons with lead ions at velocities approaching the speed of light. (sciencedaily.com)
- In March, the LHC, sited at CERN, Europe's particle - physics facility near Geneva, Switzerland, began colliding protons at energies of 7 trillion electronvolts — half the final target but already three times greater than its nearest rival, the Tevatron in Batavia, Illinois. (scientificamerican.com)
- Scientists with LHCb, an experiment at the LHC, found an unexpected behavior in b hadrons that sped off at an angle from beams of colliding protons, rather than continuing on a nearly (sciencenews.org)
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