From the PS to the LHC - 50 Years of Nobel Memories in High-Energy Physics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Alvarez-Gaumé, Luis (Editor), Mangano, Michelangelo (Editor), Tsesmelis, Emmanuel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Particle acceleration.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; History of Science.

This collection of lectures and essays by eminent researchers in the field, many of them nobel laureates, is an outgrow of a special event held at CERN in late 2009, coinciding with the start of LHC operations. Careful transcriptions of the lectures have been worked out, subsequently validated and e...