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Autore |
Ziemann Volker |
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Titolo |
Beams [[electronic resource] ] : The Story of Particle Accelerators and the Science They Discover / / by Volker Ziemann |
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Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 |
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[1st ed. 2024.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (X, 198 p. 70 illus., 67 illus. in color.) |
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Collana |
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Copernicus Books, Sparking Curiosity and Explaining the World, , 2731-8990 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Particle accelerators |
Particles (Nuclear physics) |
Physics - History |
Accelerator Physics |
Particle Physics |
History of Physics and Astronomy |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Accelerator Prehistory -- 3 Nature's Accelerators -- 4 The Echo of Rutherford's Call -- 5 The Cosmotron Meets the Strangeness of Physics -- 6 CERN and the Taming of the Zoo -- 7 A Monster Encounters Quarks -- 8 Spearheading Charm -- 9 The Tevatron and Generation Matters -- 10 Particle Horns of Plenty -- 11 Large Hadron Colliders -- 12 Future Accelerators -- 13 Special-Purpose Accelerators -- 14 Epilogue -- Timeline -- Selected Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book describes and explains the world of particle accelerators and the physics they study. The presentation is non-technical (E=mc2 is the only equation!) and the prose accessible. By following the co-evolution of particle accelerators and particle physics, readers will learn why the accelerators are built, how they work, and what "results" they produce. The book highlights the great ideas (e.g. synchrotron) and technological advances (superconducting magnets) that boosted the potential of accelerators and led to new discoveries, eventually resulting in the standard model of particle physics. Many concepts are |
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illustrated with figures derived from three-dimensional models; these include the accelerators, detectors, and particles. Background information about the main protagonists, along with pointers to further reading, e.g. from "Scientific American," are provided in end notes. |
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