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Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics, 2012
Charming the Cosmic Snake
Author: Jayakumar Raghavan
Language: EnglishSubjects for Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High...:
Publication date: 11-2013
224 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 10-2011
224 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Hardback
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This book takes the readers through the science behind particle accelerators, colliders and detectors: the physics principles that each stage of the development of particle accelerators helped to reveal, and the particles they helped to discover. The book culminates with a description of the Large Hadron Collider, one of the world?s largest and most complex machines operating in a 27-km circumference tunnel near Geneva.
The book provides the material honestly without misrepresenting the science for the sake of excitement or glossing over difficult notions. The principles behind each type of accelerator is made accessible to the undergraduate student and even to a lay reader with cartoons, illustrations and metaphors. Simultaneously, the book also caters to different levels of reader?s background and provides additional materials for the more interested or diligent reader.
The Expanding Universe of Particles.- The spark that broke the atom.- Nature’s own accelerator.- Cracking the Nucleus.- The Spiral Path to Nirvana.- Then it rained particles.- Rings of Earth- The Synchrotron.- The Next Generation – Supersynchrotrons.- Linear Accelerators, the straight story.- The Lotus Posture, Symmetry, Gauge Theories and the Standard Model.- Collision course.- Particle Detector Experiments.- The Snake Charmer- The Large Hadron Collider.- Index.
This book gives the readers a deeper understanding of the science and technology of particle accelerators at each stage of the development, culminating in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN, Geneva that engages both the world scientific community and the public interest
Will relate how the development of the accelerators enabled significant physics discoveries. The excitement of these discoveries will be felt by the reader through a greater understanding of the science of the LHC and enable their participation in national science policy
Informs the readers, who, already interested in popular science, would be wondering what such large spectacular machines are about
Accompanying educational website maintained by the author
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras