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CERN : how we found the Higgs boson /
This informative and entertaining book provides a broad look at the fascinating history of CERN, and the physicists working in different areas at CERN who were active in the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Profound and well-structured, the contents combine present day interviews with the scientists of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hackensack, NJ ; London :
World Scientific,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?