high energy physics
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the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions
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high-energy physics
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Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.
Quite often, in high energy physics and in medical radiotherapy, very high energy EMR (in the >10 MeV region)—which is of higher energy than any nuclear gamma ray—is not called X-ray or gamma-ray, but instead by the generic term of "high energy photons."
For collapsible Particle physics (also high energy physics) is the branch of physics that studies the nature of the particles that constitute matter (particles with mass ) and radiation (massless particles).
Most of DESY's research in high energy physics with elementary particles has been taking place here since 1960.