Luminosity? Why don’t we just say collision rate?

Luminosity gives a measure of how many collisions are happening in a particle accelerator, so why don’t we just say collision rate?

Opinion
At CERN
02 March, 2011

On the threshold of new territory

The LHC is already over a week into its 2010 run, and the start of physics at 7 TeV is just around the corner

Opinion
At CERN
09 March, 2010
At CERN
Opinion
09 March, 2010

A meeting at the United Nations on gender equality

Engineer Laurette Ponce of the CERN Control Centre spoke of her career in science and technology at a recent UN meeting on gender equality

Opinion
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