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The adventure of the Large Hadron Collider : from the Big bang to the Higgs boson / Daniel Denegri, CNRS/IN2P3 and CEA/IRFU, Paris-Saclay University, France, Claude Guyot, CEA/IRFU, Paris-Saclay University, France, Andreas Hoecker, CERN, Switzerland, Lydia Roos, CNRS/IN2P3, France.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Denegri, Daniel, author.
- Guyot, Claude, author.
- Hoecker, Andreas, author.
- Roos, Lydia, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Aventure du Grand Collisionneur LHC. English.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland).
- Standard model (Nuclear physics).
- Particles (Nuclear physics).
- Nuclear physics--Experiments.
- Nuclear physics.
- Elementary Particles.
- Medical Subjects:
- Elementary Particles.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 591 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2021]
- Contents:
- The standard model of elementary particle physics
- Key experiments establishing the standard model
- What the standard model cannot explain
- How could new physics look like?
- Back to the Big Bang
- The LHC
- What is a particle detector?
- The ATLAS and CMS experiments
- LHC start-up and data taking
- Data analysis
- The Higgs boson : search and discovery
- Testing the standard model
- The quest for new physics
- The LHCb and ALICE experiments : the physics of flavour and of hot & dense matter
- Looking ahead.
- Notes:
- Translation of: L'aventure du Grand Collisionneur LHC : Du big bang au boson de Higgs.
- "EDP Sciences."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-581) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Singapore Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789813236097 (electronic bk.)
- 9813236094 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99992715506
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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