Hunting the Higgs

de Oliveira, Claudia Marcelloni

ISBN 10: 190650637X / ISBN 13: 9781906506377

Published by Papadakis Dist A/C, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hunting the Higgs
• Publisher: Papadakis Dist A/C
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190650637X
• ISBN 13: 9781906506377
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Two years ago, the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva began investigating the most powerful particle collisions physicists have ever created. Its discoveries include evidence of a new particle that many think is the famous and long-sought Higgs boson. This book tells the story of one of the worlds largest particle detectors, from its inception in the late 1980s to its construction in the 2000s and its first years of operation in the 2010s. Find out why a machine designed to find tiny subatomic particles exceeds the height of the tallest dinosaurs, why the ATLAS detector throws away 99.998% of the data it finds in the blink of an eye - and why its search for discoveries that will change the way we think about the universe has only just begun.

About the Author

Colin Barras is a science writer and has written for New Scientist, The Daily Telegraph, the BBC website and the ATLAS project, part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland. He designed and edited the ATLAS e-News website between November 2007 and May 2008. Claudia Marcelloni De Oliveira is a photographer at CERN.