Luminosity

The collision rate in a particle accelerator is measured by a quantity called luminosity: the higher the luminosity, the higher the collision rate. Particles travel through the accelerator as bunches. The greater the number of bunches, the greater the number of particles per bunch and the smaller the size of the bunches at the collision point, the higher the luminosity.

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