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The story of matter. A few searching questions ; The smallest things ; Mysterium cosmographicum ; A particle primer ; The new quantum mechanics ; Three quarks for muster mark! ; Building the universe ; The Hubble deep field ; Moving forwards
The world's most complicated machine. The end of the beginning ; Disappointment and setback ; Court case number 1:2008cv00136 ; Afterwards ; Overview : a proton's journey ; The journey to the LHC ; Collider basics ; The detectors
The standard model, the Higgs, and beyond. Generation the first : an acrostic ; Feeling the force ; The Higgs field : achieving mass ; Feynman diagrams ; Searching for the Higgs ; Supersymmetry ; Exotica : going up, going down
The Big Bang and the first 380,000 years. The Big Bang ; The critical density and [omega] ; The microwave background ; Primordial nucleosynthesis ; Inflation, flatness, horizons, and a free lunch ; The quark-gluon plasma ; ALICE : in experimental wonderland ; Matter/antimatter : it matters! ; Getting to the bottom of things
Dark matters. Interstellar matters ; Where are we? ; Unraveling the nebula mystery ; The galaxy zoo ; The local group ; Galaxy clusters ; Where's the missing mass? ; All in a spin : dark matter found ; Gravitational lenses and anamorphic galaxies ; Some dark matter candidates ; ADMX ; Euclid's dark map ; The MOND alternative ; Dark Stars and Y(4140)
Dark energy and an accelerating universe. The measure of the stars ; An expanding universe ; Death throes and distance ; Future sun : take one ; The degenerate world of white dwarfs ; Future sun : take two ; The case of IK Pegasus B ; High-z supernova surveys ; Dark energy and [delta]CDM cosmology ; A distant darkness ; Testing Copernicus
The waiting game. Hoping for the unexpected ; Massive star evolution ; The strange case of RXJ1856.5-3754 and pulsar 3C58 ; Small, dark, and many dimensioned ; This magnet has only one pole! ; These rays are truly cosmic ; Looking forward to LHCf ; The king is dead! Long live the king!
Appendix A. Units and constants
Appendix B. Acronym list
Appendix C. Glossary of technical terms.
The world's most complicated machine. The end of the beginning ; Disappointment and setback ; Court case number 1:2008cv00136 ; Afterwards ; Overview : a proton's journey ; The journey to the LHC ; Collider basics ; The detectors
The standard model, the Higgs, and beyond. Generation the first : an acrostic ; Feeling the force ; The Higgs field : achieving mass ; Feynman diagrams ; Searching for the Higgs ; Supersymmetry ; Exotica : going up, going down
The Big Bang and the first 380,000 years. The Big Bang ; The critical density and [omega] ; The microwave background ; Primordial nucleosynthesis ; Inflation, flatness, horizons, and a free lunch ; The quark-gluon plasma ; ALICE : in experimental wonderland ; Matter/antimatter : it matters! ; Getting to the bottom of things
Dark matters. Interstellar matters ; Where are we? ; Unraveling the nebula mystery ; The galaxy zoo ; The local group ; Galaxy clusters ; Where's the missing mass? ; All in a spin : dark matter found ; Gravitational lenses and anamorphic galaxies ; Some dark matter candidates ; ADMX ; Euclid's dark map ; The MOND alternative ; Dark Stars and Y(4140)
Dark energy and an accelerating universe. The measure of the stars ; An expanding universe ; Death throes and distance ; Future sun : take one ; The degenerate world of white dwarfs ; Future sun : take two ; The case of IK Pegasus B ; High-z supernova surveys ; Dark energy and [delta]CDM cosmology ; A distant darkness ; Testing Copernicus
The waiting game. Hoping for the unexpected ; Massive star evolution ; The strange case of RXJ1856.5-3754 and pulsar 3C58 ; Small, dark, and many dimensioned ; This magnet has only one pole! ; These rays are truly cosmic ; Looking forward to LHCf ; The king is dead! Long live the king!
Appendix A. Units and constants
Appendix B. Acronym list
Appendix C. Glossary of technical terms.