Particle Accelerators: From Big Bang Physics to Hadron Therapy [E-Book] / by Ugo Amaldi
Rather than focusing on the contributions of theoretical physicists to the understanding of the subatomic world and of the beginning of the universe - as most popular science books on particle physics do - this book is different in that, firstly, the main focus is on machine inventors and builders a...
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| Personal Name(s): | Amaldi, Ugo, author |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2015. |
| Imprint: |
Cham :
Springer,
2015
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| Physical Description: |
XVII, 284 pages 145 illustrations, 28 illustrations in color (online resource) |
| Note: |
englisch |
| ISBN: |
9783319088709 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-319-08870-9 |
| Subject (LOC): |
- Introduction
- The First Fifty Years
- Small Accelerators Get Bigger
- The Last Fifty Years
- Matter-Particles And Force-Particles
- Searching For The Higgs Field
- An Expected Discovery, Susy And Beyond
- The Beginnings of Accelerators in Medicine
- Accelerators Which Heal
- Epilogue: CERN Reverts The March Of Time.