Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics

Raghavan Jayakumar

ISBN 10: 3642445624 / ISBN 13: 9783642445620

Editore: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Nov 2013, 2013

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 236 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics
• Editore: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Nov 2013
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3642445624
• ISBN 13: 9783642445620
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 235 L x 155 A x 13 P (millimetri) 235 millimetri di larghezza per 155 millimetri di altezza per 13 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 365 grammi

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

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