proton accelerator vs collider

proton accelerator and collider both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
proton accelerator	Yes	No	No	No
collider	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, collider is a hypernym of proton accelerator; that is, collider is a word with a broader meaning than proton accelerator:

proton accelerator: a collider that collides beams of protons and antiprotons
collider: an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on

proton accelerator (noun)	collider (noun)
a collider that collides beams of protons and antiprotons	an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on