Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics: Charming the Cosmic Snake

by Raghavan Jayakumar

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642220630
• ISBN13: 9783642220630
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"