Physical information Physical information Physical information is a form of information. In physics, it refers to the information of a physical system. Physical information is an important concept used in a number of fields of study in physics. For example, in quantum mechanics, the form of physical information known as quantum information is used in many descriptions of quantum phenomena, such as quantum observation, quantum entanglement and the causal relationship between quantum objects that carry out either or both close and long-range interactions with one another. In a somewhat general sense, the information of a given entity can be interpreted as its
Interaction point Interaction point In particle physics, an interaction point (IP) is the place where particles collide in an accelerator experiment. The "nominal" interaction point is the design position, which may differ from the "real" or "physics" interaction point, where the particles actually collide. A related, but distinct, concept is the "primary vertex": the reconstructed location of an individual particle collision. For fixed target experiments, the interaction point is the point where beam and target interact. For colliders, it is the place where the beams interact. Experiments (detectors) at particle accelerators are built around the nominal interaction points of the accelerators. The