Intersecting Storage Rings | CERN, 1971–1984 |
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Proton-Antiproton Collider (SPS) | CERN, 1981–1991 |
ISABELLE | BNL, cancelled in 1983 |
Tevatron | Fermilab, 1987–2011 |
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider | BNL, 2000–present |
Superconducting Super Collider | Cancelled in 1993 |
Large Hadron Collider | CERN, 2009–present |
Future Circular Collider | Proposed |
A hadron collider is a very large particle accelerator built to test the predictions of various theories in particle physics, high-energy physics or nuclear physics by colliding hadrons. A hadron collider uses underground tunnels to accelerate, store, and collide two particle beams.
Only a few hadron colliders have been built. These are: