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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Jayakumar, Raghavan (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Θέματα: Physics.; Cosmology.; Nuclear physics.; Particle acceleration.; Popular works.; Electrical engineering.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Electrical Engineering.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Popular Science, general.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.