Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics: Charming the Cosmic Snake

Jayakumar, Raghavan (Author)

ISBN 10: 3642445624 / ISBN 13: 9783642445620

Verlag: Springer, 2013

Beschreibung

reprint edition. 222 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers x-3642445624

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics: Charming the Cosmic Snake
• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3642445624
• ISBN-13: 9783642445620
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Brand New

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Raghavan Jayakumar is an accelerator scientist who was involved in the Superconducting Supercollider project that was cancelled by the the US congress in 1993.