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Hunting the Higgs
C Marcelloni
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Description for Hunting the Higgs
Hardcover. Few years ago, the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva began investigating the most powerful particle collisions physicists have ever created. This book tells the story of one of the world's largest particle detectors, from its inception in the 980s to its construction in the 2000s and its first years of operation in the 2010s. Num Pages: 64 pages, full colour throughout, includes photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFH; PDG; PDN; PGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 170 x 13. Weight in Grams: 410.
This is the inside story of one of the world's largest particle detectors. Two years ago, the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva began investigating the most powerful particle collisions physicists have ever created. Its discoveries include evidence of a new particle that many think is the famous and long-sought Higgs boson. This book tells the story of one of the world's largest particle detectors, from its inception in the late 1980s to its construction in the 2000s and its first years of operation in the 2010s. You can find out why a machine designed to find ... Read more
This is the inside story of one of the world's largest particle detectors. Two years ago, the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva began investigating the most powerful particle collisions physicists have ever created. Its discoveries include evidence of a new particle that many think is the famous and long-sought Higgs boson. This book tells the story of one of the world's largest particle detectors, from its inception in the late 1980s to its construction in the 2000s and its first years of operation in the 2010s. You can find out why a machine designed to find ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Papadakis Dist A C
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Publication date
2013
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Newbury, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906506377
SKU
V9781906506377
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99-50
About C Marcelloni
Colin Barras is a science writer and has written for New Scientist, Tthe Daily Telegraph, the BBC website and the ATLAS project, part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland. He designed and edited the ATLAS e-News website between November 2007 and May 2008. Claudia Marcelloni De Oliveira is a photographer at CERN.
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