Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics Charming the Cosmic Snake /

The Nordic mythological Cosmic Serpent, Ouroboros, is said to be coiled in the depths of the sea, surrounding the Earth with its tail in its mouth. In physics, this snake is a metaphor for the Universe, where the head, symbolizing the largest entity - the Cosmos - is one with the tail, symbolizing t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jayakumar, Raghavan (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
Temas:
Particle accelerators.
Electrical engineering.
Nuclear physics.
Cosmology.
Engineering.
Life sciences.
Accelerator Physics.
Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Nuclear and Particle Physics.
Technology and Engineering.
Life Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Expanding Universe of Particles
  • The spark that broke the atom
  • Nature's own accelerator
  • Cracking the Nucleus
  • The Spiral Path to Nirvana
  • Then it rained particles
  • Rings of Earth- The Synchrotron
  • The Next Generation - Supersynchrotrons
  • Linear Accelerators, the straight story
  • The Lotus Posture, Symmetry, Gauge Theories and the Standard Model
  • Collision course
  • Particle Detector Experiments
  • The Snake Charmer- The Large Hadron Collider
  • Index.

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