Present at the creation : the story of CERN and the large hadron collider / Amir Aczel.
Aczel, Amir D.
2010
QC787.P73 A29 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Present at the creation : the story of CERN and the large hadron collider / Amir Aczel.
Author Aczel, Amir D.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780307591678
0307591670
Imprint New York : Crown Publishers/Harmony Books, c2010.
Language English
Description xvi, 271 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., photographs ; 25 cm.
Call Number QC787.P73 A29 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 539.7/36094
Summary In telling the story of what is perhaps the most anticipated experiment in the history of science, Aczel takes us inside the control rooms at CERN at key moments when an international team of top researchers begins to discover whether this multi-billion euro investment will fulfill its spectacular promise.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The exploding protons
The LHC and our age-old quest to understand the structure of the universe
A place called CERN
Building the greatest machine in history
LHCb and the mystery of the missing antimatter
Richard Feynman and a prelude to the standard model
"Who ordered that?": the discoveries of leaping leptons
Symmetries of nature, Yang-Mills theory, and quarks
Hunting the Higgs
How the Higgs sprang alive inside a read Camaro (and gave birth to three bosons)
Dark matter, dark energy, and the fate of the universe
Looking for strings and hidden dimensions
Will CERN create a black hole?
The LHC and the future of physics
Afterword.

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