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CERN and the Higgs boson : the global quest for the building blocks of reality / James Gillies.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Hot science (London, England)Publication details: London : Icon Books, 2018. Description: viii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 1785783920
  • 9781785783920
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 539.721 23
LOC classification:
  • QC793.16 .G55 2018
Contents:
1 Breaking news -- 2 Atomos -- 3 From the ashes -- 4 A new laboratory is born -- 5 The birth of the big machines -- 6 In theory -- 7 New kids on the block -- 8 From a November revolution to W and Z -- 9 The race for the Higgs -- 10 Supercollider! -- 11 Whats's the use?
Summary: "In the late 1940s, a handful of visionaries were working to steer Europe towards a more peaceful future through science, and CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, was duly born. James Gillies tells the gripping story of particle physics, from the original atomists of ancient Greece, through the people who made the crucial breakthroughs, to CERN itself, one of the most ambitious scientific undertakings of our time, and its eventual confirmation of the Higgs boson. Weaving together the scientific and political stories of CERN's development, the book reveals how particle physics has evolved from being the realm of solitary genius to a global field of human endeavour, with CERN's Large Hadron Collider as its frontier research tool"--Back cover.
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Non-Fiction Non-Fiction Waimate Located at Event Centre Non Fiction 539.721 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not For Loan A00703002

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-158) and index.

1 Breaking news -- 2 Atomos -- 3 From the ashes -- 4 A new laboratory is born -- 5 The birth of the big machines -- 6 In theory -- 7 New kids on the block -- 8 From a November revolution to W and Z -- 9 The race for the Higgs -- 10 Supercollider! -- 11 Whats's the use?

"In the late 1940s, a handful of visionaries were working to steer Europe towards a more peaceful future through science, and CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, was duly born. James Gillies tells the gripping story of particle physics, from the original atomists of ancient Greece, through the people who made the crucial breakthroughs, to CERN itself, one of the most ambitious scientific undertakings of our time, and its eventual confirmation of the Higgs boson. Weaving together the scientific and political stories of CERN's development, the book reveals how particle physics has evolved from being the realm of solitary genius to a global field of human endeavour, with CERN's Large Hadron Collider as its frontier research tool"--Back cover.

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