Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics : Charming the Cosmic Snake. 1st ed. 2012

種類:

電子ブック

責任表示:

by Raghavan Jayakumar

出版情報:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012

著者名:

• Jayakumar, Raghavan.
• SpringerLink (Online service)

ISBN:

9783642220647 [3642220649]    

注記:

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.
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 the smallest – the fundamental particle. Particle accelerators, colliders and detectors are built by physicists and engineers to uncover the nature of the Universe while discovering its building blocks. “Charming the Cosmic Snake” takes the readers through the science behind these experimental machines: the physics principles that each stage of the development of particle accelerators helped to reveal, and the particles they helped to discover. The book culminates with a description of the Large Hadron Collider, one of the world’s largest and most complex machines operating in a 27-km circumference tunnel near Geneva. That collider may prove or disprove many of our basic theories about the nature of matter. The book

ローカル注記:

学内専用E-BOOKS (local access only)