Inside Cern's Large Hadron Collider

By Mario Campanelli and Mario Campenelli

Book Overview

The book aims to explain the historical development of particle physics, with special emphasis on CERN and collider physics. It describes in detail the LHC accelerator and its detectors, describing the science involved as well as the sociology of big collaborations, culminating with the discovery of the Higgs boson. Readers are led step-by-step to understanding why we do particle physics, as well as the tools and problems involved in the field. It provides an insider's view on the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9814656658
• ISBN13: 9789814656658
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"