BRAINCAKEParticle Colliders and Energy
Particle accelerators accelerate particles and the particles to extremely high speeds. The particles collide with high enough kinetic energies to produce a shower of new particles.
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Key terms in this lesson
- Antiparticle
- A particle with the same rest mass as its corresponding particle but with opposite charge and opposite values of other quantum properties.
More in Quarks and Leptons
- Particle Accelerators
- Classifying Particles and Antiparticles
- Leptons
- Hadrons
- Baryons and Mesons
- Lepton Collisions
- Lepton Rules
- Neutrinos
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