In particle physics, force carriers or messenger particles or intermediate particles are particles that give rise to forces between other particles. These particles are bundles of energy (quanta) of a particular kind of field. There is one kind of field for every type of elementary particle. For instance, there is an electron field whose quanta are electrons, and an electromagnetic field whose quanta are photons.[1] The force carrier particles that mediate the electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions are called gauge bosons.
So CERN and other colliders are ways to 'see ' the quanta since they can't see the fields of these forces. That is why they are 'all about particles. They can't map the field so they collapse the field to a quanta unit.