The Quantum Frontier

The Large Hadron Collider
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8018-9144-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

The highest-energy particle accelerator ever built, the Large Hadron Collider runs under the border between France and Switzerland. It leapt into action on September 10, 2008, amid unprecedented global press coverage and widespread fears that its energy would create tiny black holes that could destroy the earth.

By smashing together particles smaller than atoms, the LHC recreates the conditions hypothesized to have existed just moments after the big bang. Physicists expect it to aid our understanding of how the universe came into being and to show us much about the standard model of particle physics—even possibly proving the existence of the mysterious Higgs boson. In exploring what the collider does and what it might find, Don Lincoln explains what the LHC is likely to teach us about particle physics, including uncovering the nature of dark matter, finding micro black holes and supersymmetric particles, identifying extra dimensions, and revealing the origin of mass in the universe.

Thousands of physicists from around the globe will have access to the LHC, none of whom really knows what outcomes will be produced by the $7.7 billion project. Whatever it reveals, the results arising from the Large Hadron Collider will profoundly alter our understanding of the cosmos and the atom and stimulate amateur and professional scientists for years to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lincoln, Don

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Leon Lederman
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. What We Know: The Standard Model
2. What We Guess: Theories We Want to Test
3. How We Do It: The Large Hadron Collider
4. How We See It: The Enormous Detectors
5. Where We're Going: The Big Picture, the Universe, and the Future
Epilogue
Suggested Reading
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lincoln, Don
Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at Fermilab. He is the author of The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider and The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind.

Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos, Alien Universe: Extraterrestrials in Our Minds and in the Cosmos, and The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind.