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The Large Hadron Collider : the extraordinary story of the Higgs boson and other stuff that will blow your mind / by Lincoln, Don,author.(CARDINAL)463342;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Beginnings and building blocks -- Stuff we already know -- Accelerators and the LHC -- Incredible detectors -- Teething pains and triumphs -- The dramatic Higgs saga -- Looking for something new -- The future is bright!
Subjects: Higgs bosons.; Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland);
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The large hadron collider / by Juettner Fernandes, Bonnie.(CARDINAL)277835;
Includes bibliographical references (page 46) and index.Chapter 1: What is the Large Hadron Collider? -- Chapter 2: Challenges and solutions in developing the LHC -- Chapter 3: Constructing the LHC -- Chapter 4: How the LHC is changing the world."Describes the struggles and accomplishments in building the Hadron Super Collider, the tool that scientists use to understand how the universe first began. Includes glossary, websites, and bibliography for further reading"--Provided by publisher.930LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland);
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Massive : the missing particle that sparked the greatest hunt in science / by Sample, Ian.(CARDINAL)501718;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Long road to Princeton -- Shadow of the bomb -- Seventy-nine lines -- The enchanted prince -- An earnest revenge -- Reagan's renegade -- Massive Maggie -- The end is not nigh -- The Gordian knot -- Chasing the wind -- Hidden world.This science story, the biggest of our time, spans four decades, weaving together the personal narratives and international rivalries behind the search for the "God particle," or Higgs boson. A story of grand ambition, intense competition, clashing egos, and occasionally spectacular failures, Massive is the first book that reveals the science, culture, and politics behind the biggest unanswered question in modern physics--what gives things mass? Drawing upon his unprecedented access to Peter Higgs, after whom the particle is named, science journalist Ian Sample chronicles the multinational and multibillion-dollar quest to solve the mystery of mass. For scientists, to find the God particle is to finally understand the origin of mass, and until now, the story of their search has never been told.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Higgs bosons.; Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland);
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Particle fever [videorecording] by Levinson, Mark A.(Mark Alan),television director.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)309769;
Follow six scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet. As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists join forces in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter.Rating: TV-PG.DVD, widescreen presentation; Dolby digital 5.1; NTSC, region 1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Documentary television programs.; Higgs bosons.; Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland); Physics;
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The quantum frontier : the large hadron collider / by Lincoln, Don.(CARDINAL)463342;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Higgs bosons.; Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland); Particles (Nuclear physics);
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The Large Hadron Collider : the extraordinary story of the Higgs boson and other stuff that will blow your mind / by Lincoln, Don,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-217) and index.An insider's history of the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider: why it was built, how it works, and the importance of what it has revealed. Since 2008 scientists have conducted experiments in a hyperenergized, 17-mile supercollider beneath the border of France and Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider (or what scientists call "the LHC") is one of the wonders of the modern world--a highly sophisticated scientific instrument designed to re-create in miniature the conditions of the universe as they existed in the microseconds following the big bang. Among many notable LHC discoveries, one led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for revealing evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson, the so-called God particle. Picking up where he left off in The Quantum Frontier, physicist Don Lincoln shares an insider's account of the LHC's operational history and gives readers everything they need to become well informed on this marvel of technology. Writing about the LHC's early days, Lincoln offers keen insight into an accident that derailed the operation nine days after the collider's 2008 debut. A faulty solder joint started a chain reaction that caused a massive explosion, damaged 50 superconducting magnets, and vaporized large sections of the conductor. The crippled LHC lay dormant for over a year, while technical teams repaired the damage. Lincoln devotes an entire chapter to the Higgs boson and Higgs field, using several extended analogies to help explain the importance of these concepts to particle physics. In the final chapter, he describes what the discovery of the Higgs boson tells us about our current understanding of basic physics and how the discovery now keeps scientists awake over a nagging inconsistency in their favorite theory. As accessible as it is fascinating, The Large Hadron Collider reveals the inner workings of this masterful achievement of technology, along with the mind-blowing discoveries that will keep it at the center of the scientific frontier for the foreseeable future.
Subjects: Higgs bosons.; Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland);
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Present at the creation : the story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider / by Aczel, Amir D.(CARDINAL)768191;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389 - 256) and index.The exploding protons -- The LHC and our age-old quest to understand the structure of the universe -- A place called CERN -- Building the greatest machine in history -- LHCb and the mystery of the missing antimatter -- Richard Feynman and a prelude to the standard model -- "Who ordered that?": the discoveries of leaping leptons -- Symmetries of nature, Yang-Mills theory, and quarks -- Hunting the Higgs -- How the Higgs sprang alive inside a read Camaro (and gave birth to three bosons) -- Dark matter, dark energy, and the fate of the universe -- Looking for strings and hidden dimensions -- Will CERN create a black hole? -- The LHC and the future of physics -- Afterword.In telling the story of what is perhaps the most anticipated experiment in the history of science, Aczel takes us inside the control rooms at CERN at key moments when an international team of top researchers begins to discover whether this multi-billion euro investment will fulfill its spectacular promise.
Subjects: European Organization for Nuclear Research.; Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland); Colliders (Nuclear physics);
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The particle at the end of the universe / by Carroll, Sean,1966-(CARDINAL)544558;
The Higgs boson is the particle that more than six thousand scientists have been looking for using the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest energy particle accelerator, which lies in a tunnel 17 miles in circumference, as deep as 575 feet beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva. The multinational and multibillion-dollar quest to solve the mystery of mass has now cost over $9 billion and required the collaboration of engineers from more than one hundred countries.
Subjects: Higgs bosons.; Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland); Particles (Nuclear physics); Dark matter (Astronomy); Dark energy (Astronomy);
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Most wanted particle : the inside story of the hunt for the Higgs, the heart of the future of physics / by Butterworth, Jon.(CARDINAL)353976; Randall, Lisa,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)476474;
Before the data -- Restart -- High energy -- Standard Model -- Rumours and limits -- First Higgs hints and some crazy neutrinos -- Closing in -- Discovery -- What next?
Subjects: Butterworth, Jon; European Organization for Nuclear Research.; Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland); Higgs bosons.;
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Grace in all simplicity : beauty, truth, and wonders in the path to the Higgs boson and new laws of nature / by Cahn, Robert N.,author.(CARDINAL)877381; Quigg, Chris,author.(CARDINAL)877376;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Grace in All Simplicity narrates the saga of how we have prospected for some of Nature's most tightly held secrets, the basic constituents of matter and the fundamental forces that rule them. Our current understanding of the world (and universe) we inhabit is the result of curiosity, diligence, and daring, of abstraction and synthesis, and of an abiding faith in the value of exploration. In these pages we will meet scientists of both past and present. These men and women are professional scientists and amateurs, the eccentric and the conventional, performers and introverts."--
Subjects: Higgs bosons.; Particles (Nuclear physics); Matter; Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland); Discoveries in science.;
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