60 years of CERN experiments and discoveries / editors, Herwig Schopper (University of Hamburg and CERN), Luigi Di Lella (University of Pisa and CERN).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schopper, Herwig F., editor.

Di Lella, L., editor.

Series:

Advanced series on directions in high energy physics ; v. 23.

Advanced series on directions in high energy physics ; vol. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Particle accelerators--Experiments.

Particle accelerators.

Particles (Nuclear physics)--Experiments.

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Physical Description:

x, 439 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Sixty years of CERN experiments and discoveries

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2015]

Summary:

The book is a complication of the most important experimental results achieved during the past 60 years at CERN - from the mid-1950s to the latest discovery of the Higgs particle. Covering the results from early accelerators at CERN to the most recent at the LHC, the contents provide an excellent review of the achievements of this outstanding laboratory. Not only presented is the impressive scientific progress achieved during the past six decades, but also demonstrated is the special way of successful international collaboration developed at CERN. Book jacket.

Contents:

The discovery of the Higgs boson at the lHC / P. Jenni and T.S. Virdee

Precision physics with heavy-flavoured hadrons / P. Koppenburg and V. Vagnoni

Towards the limits of matter: ultra-relativisic nuclear collisions at CERN / J. Schukraft and R. Stock

The measurement of number of light neutrino species at LEP / S. Mele

Precision experiments at LEP / W. de Boer

The discovery of the W and Z particles / L. Di Lella and C. Rubbia

The discovery of weak neutral currents / D. Haidt

Highlights from high energy neutrino experiments at CERN / W.D. Schlatter

The discovery of direct CP violation / L. Iconomidou-Fayard and D. Fournier

Measurements of discrete symmetries in the neutral kaon system with the CPLEAR(PS195) experiment / T. Ruf

An ISR discovery: the rise of the proton-proton cross-section / U. Amaldi

Deep inelastic scattering with the SPS muon beam / G. Mallot and R. Voss

Revealing partons in hadrons: from the ISR to the SPS collider / P. Darriulat and L. Di Lella

Properties of antiprotons and antihydron, and the study of exotic atoms / M. Doser

Muon g-2 and tests of relativity / F.J.M. Farley

CERN discoveries: rare pion decays at the synchrocyclotron / G. Fidecaro

Highlights at ISOLDE / K. Blaum, M.J.G. Borge, B. Jonson and P. Van Duppen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789814644143

9814644145

9789814663182

9814663182

OCLC:

898167729