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

Jayakumar, Raghavan

ISBN 10: 3642220630 / ISBN 13: 9783642220630

Verlag: Springer, 2011

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics: Charming the Cosmic Snake
• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3642220630
• ISBN-13: 9783642220630
• Einband: hardcover
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

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.