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Collider : the search for the world's smallest particles
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Collider : the search for the world's smallest particles

Author: Paul Halpern
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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An accessible look at the hottest topic in physics--particle physics--and the experiment that will transform our understanding of the universe: smashing particles with the Large Hadron Collider to deconstruct matter to its smallest pieces and test the existence of the elusive and theoretical Higgs boson--a.k.a. the God particle.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Paul Halpern
ISBN: 9780470286203 0470286202 9780470643914 0470643919 9780470486207 0470486201
OCLC Number: 301885628
Description: xii, 260 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Journey to the heart of the Large Hadron Collider --
The machinery of perfection --
The secrets of creation --
The quest for a theory of everything --
Striking gold : Rutherford's scattering experiments --
Smashing successes : the first accelerators --
A compelling quartet : the four fundamental forces --
A tale of two rings : the Tevatron and the Super Proton Synchrotron --
Deep in the heart of Texas : the rise and fall of the Superconducting Super Collider --
Cashing by design : building the Large Hadron Collider --
Denizens of the dark : resolving the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy --
The brane drain : looking for portals to higher dimensions --
Microscopic black holes : a boon to science or a boom for the world? --
The future of high-energy physics : the International Linear Collider and beyond.
Responsibility: Paul Halpern.

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Understanding what our universe is physically made of is one of the oldest and most researched scientific quandaries to date. In the spring of 2009, the Large Hadron Collider will begin smashing  Read more...

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‘…very readable history of our quest to understand the building blocks of matter.' (The Guardian, November 2010).

 
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