Proton Colliders at the Energy Frontier

Understand

Since the CERN ISR, hadron colliders have defined the energy frontier.

• Noteworthy are the conversion of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) into a proton-antiproton collider, the Tevatron collider, as well as the abandoned SSC in the United States.
• Hadron colliders are likely to determine the pace of particle-physics progress also during the next hundred years.
• Discoveries at past hadron colliders were essential for establishing the so-called Standard Model of particle physics.