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CERN : how we found the Higgs boson
- Title
- CERN : how we found the Higgs boson / Michael Krause.
- Author
- Krause, Michael, 1956-
- Publication
- New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014]
- ©2014
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 243 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 26 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-223) and index.
- Contents
- The history of CERN -- The practitioner: Rolf-Dieter Heuer -- The atomic theory of Democritus of Abdera -- Democritus' atomic model -- The beginning of modern physics: Galileo, Copernicus, and Kepler -- The experimentalist: Tejinder S. Virdee -- The four fundamental forces (interactions) -- Quotes by and about Newton -- Isaac Newton -- Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, Bohr -- The man who built the LHC: Lyn Evans -- The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) -- Physics, music, and art: Tara Shears -- The theorist: John Ellis -- The standard model -- Oersted-Ampère-Faraday-Maxwell -- Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) -- André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) -- Michael Faraday (1791-1867) -- Electromagnetic induction-classical field theory -- Electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell -- The communicator: Rolf Landua -- Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953) -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- Einstein quotes -- The Japanese way: Masaki Hori -- Antimater I -- The Michelson-Morley experiment -- Antimatter II -- Einstein's cosmological constant -- The nobel prize laureate: Carlo Rubbia -- The Rubbiatron -- The American friend: Sebastian White -- The Flammarion engraving -- The Crab Nebula-Type II supernovae -- Type 1A Supernovae -- Friendly competitors: Sebastian White and Albert De Roeck -- ATLAS and CMS -- a healthy competition -- Rock 'n' roll, beer, billiards, and music: Jonathan Butterworth -- Beauty is where you find it -- The Higgs boson: and then?.
- Call Number
- JBF 18-368
- ISBN
- 9789814623551 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- 9814623555 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- 9789814623469 (pbk : alk. paper)
- 9814623466 (pbk : alk. paper)
- 9814623482
- 9789814623483
- LCCN
- 2014027852
- OCLC
- 881657199
- Author
- Krause, Michael, 1956- author.
- Title
- CERN : how we found the Higgs boson / Michael Krause.
- Publisher
- New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-223) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JBF 18-368