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Intersecting Storage Rings
  
CERN, 1971–1984

ISABELLE
  
BNL, cancelled in 1983

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
  
BNL, 2000–present

Super Proton Synchrotron
  
CERN, 1981–1984

Tevatron
  
Fermilab, 1987–2011

Superconducting Super Collider
  
Cancelled in 1993

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.

Colliders

Only a few hadron colliders have been built. These are:

  • Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR), European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), in operation 1971-1984.
  • Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), CERN, used as a hadron collider 1981-1984.
  • Tevatron, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), in operation 1983-2011.
  • Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), Brookhaven National Laboratory, in operation since 2000.
  • Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN, in operation since 2008.

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