Smashing physics : inside the world's biggest experiment
Butterworth, Jon2015
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The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and François Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the culmination of the largest experiment ever run, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. But what really is a Higgs boson and what does it do? How was it found? And how has its discovery changed our understanding of the fundamental laws of nature? And what did it feel like to be part of it? Jon Butterworth is one of the leading physicists at CERN and this book is his inside account of the hunt for the Higgs.
Main title:
Smashing physics : inside the world's biggest experiment / Jon Butterworth.
Author:
Butterworth, Jon, author
Imprint:
London : Headline, 2015.
Collation:
341 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2014.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781472210333 (pbk)
Dewey class:
539.7092
LC class:
QC16.E5
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1464031
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