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

Charming the Cosmic Snake
Buch | Hardcover
XII, 224 Seiten
2011 | 2012
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-22063-0 (ISBN)
58,84 inkl. MwSt

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.

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

The Expanding Universe of Particles.- The spark that broke the atom.- Nature's own accelerator.- Cracking the Nucleus.- The Spiral Path to Nirvana.- Then it rained particles.- Rings of Earth- The Synchrotron.- The Next Generation - Supersynchrotrons.- Linear Accelerators, the straight story.- The Lotus Posture, Symmetry, Gauge Theories and the Standard Model.- Collision course.- Particle Detector Experiments.- The Snake Charmer- The Large Hadron Collider.- Index.

From the reviews:

"Jayakumar, an experienced accelerator scientist, tells the story of scientists' growing understanding of high-energy particles through the lens of the accelerators and colliders built to explore the diverse phenomena of high-energy physics. ... The author writes lucidly, often revealing his passion for both the giant accelerators and the scientists' mission to explore the world at the highest energies achievable. ... Summing Up: Recommended. All general readers and undergraduate students." (J. R. Burciaga, Choice, Vol. 49 (11), July, 2012)

Erscheint lt. Verlag 27.10.2011
Zusatzinfo XII, 224 p.
Verlagsort Berlin
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 489 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Relativitätstheorie
Technik Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
Schlagworte CERN • God particle • Higgs particle • Large hadron collider (LHC) • Particle Accelerators explained • Particle Physics explained • standard model of particle physics
ISBN-10 3-642-22063-0 / 3642220630
ISBN-13 978-3-642-22063-0 / 9783642220630
Zustand Neuware
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