Collider
Subtitle: the search for the world's smallest particles
By: Paul Halpern
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780470286203; 9780470643914
Subjects: Particles (Nuclear physics); Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland); European Organization for Nuclear Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: Journey to the heart of the Large Hadron Collider; title: The machinery of perfection; title: The secrets of creation; title: The quest for a theory of everything; title: Striking gold : Rutherford's scattering experiments; title: Smashing successes : the first accelerators; title: A compelling quartet : the four fundamental forces; title: A tale of two rings : the Tevatron and the Super Proton Synchrotron; title: Deep in the heart of Texas : the rise and fall of the Superconducting Super Collider; title: Cashing by design : building the Large Hadron Collider; title: Denizens of the dark : resolving the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy; title: The brane drain : looking for portals to higher dimensions; title: Microscopic black holes : a boon to science or a boom for the world?; title: The future of high-energy physics : the International Linear Collider and beyond.