The quantum frontier : the large hadron collider / Don Lincoln ; foreword by Leon Lederman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lincoln, Don.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Higgs bosons.

Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland).

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Whatever it reveals, the results arising from the Large Hadron Collider will profoundly alter our understanding of the cosmos and the atom and stimulate amateur and professional scientists for years to come.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1 What We Know: The Standard Model

2 What We Guess: Theories We Want to Test

3 How We Do It: The Large Hadron Collider

4 How We See It: The Enormous Detectors

5 Where We're Going: The Big Picture, the Universe, and the Future

Epilogue

Suggested Reading

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-9644-4

OCLC:

647866971