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ISBN/EAN: 9783642220647

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3-642-22064-9, 978-3-642-22064-7
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Titel des Buches: accelerators, snake, charming, coll part, the new high, let tell you story, high energy physics, dtm story, die g11 story, particle accelerator physics, cosmic energy

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Autor/in: Raghavan Jayakumar
Titel: Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics - Charming the Cosmic Snake
Verlag: Springer; Springer Berlin
224 Seiten
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011-10-27
Berlin; Heidelberg; DE
Gedruckt / Hergestellt in Niederlande.
Sprache: Englisch
50,28 € (DE)
51,70 € (AT)
59,00 CHF (CH)
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XII, 224 p.

EA; E107; eBook; Nonbooks, PBS / Physik, Astronomie/Atomphysik, Kernphysik; Teilchen- und Hochenergiephysik; Verstehen; CERN; God particle; Higgs particle; Large Hadron Collider (LHC); Particle Accelerators explained; Particle Physics explained; Standard Model of particle physics; B; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics; Electrical Engineering; Particle and Nuclear Physics; Cosmology; Popular Science, general; Life Sciences, general; Accelerator Physics; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Nuclear and Particle Physics; Cosmology; Technology and Engineering; Life Sciences; Physics and Astronomy; Elektrotechnik; Physik; Kosmologie und das Universum; Ingenieurswesen, Maschinenbau allgemein; Biowissenschaften, allgemein; BB

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.

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)

The Nordic mythological Cosmic Serpent, Ouroboros, is said to be coiled in the depths of the sea, surrounding the Earth with its tail in its mouth. In physics, this snake is a metaphor for the Universe, where the head, symbolizing the largest entity – the Cosmos – is one with the tail, symbolizing the smallest – the fundamental particle.

Particle accelerators, colliders and detectors are built by physicists and engineers to uncover the nature of the Universe while discovering its building blocks. “Charming the Cosmic Snake” takes the readers through the science behind these experimental machines: 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. That collider may prove or disprove many of our basic theories about the nature of matter.

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.

This book gives the readers a deeper understanding of the science and technology of particle accelerators at each stage of the development, culminating in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN, Geneva that engages both the world scientific community and the public interest

Will relate how the development of the accelerators enabled significant physics discoveries. The excitement of these discoveries will be felt by the reader through a greater understanding of the science of the LHC and enable their participation in national science policy

Informs the readers, who, already interested in popular science, would be wondering what such large spectacular machines are about

Accompanying educational website maintained by the author

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras