Particle accelerators : from big bang physics to Hadron therapy /: from big bang physics to Hadron therapy. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Sempre più veloci.
• Further Information: Note: Ugo Amaldi ; with the collaboration of Adele La Rana ; translated by Geoffrey Hall.
• Authors: Amaldi, U (Ugo), 1934-
• Other Names: La Rana, Adele contributor.; Hall, G (Geoffrey) translator.
• Contents: Preface; Prologue; Subatomic Microscopes, Particle Factories; Why We Cannot See the Big Bang; Relic Radiation; A Time Machine; From Cosmology to Medicine; Contents; Chapter 1: The First Fifty Years; A Mysterious Radiation; Röntgenś Accelerator and Its Effects; The First Nuclear Reactions; The Cockcroft-Walton Accelerator; Mass and Energy in the Subatomic World; Heisenbergś Uncertainty Principle; The Positron and the Antiparticles; The Dirac Equation and Antimatter; The Invention of the Cyclotron; Lawrenceś Many Cyclotrons; Effects of Relativity; The Phase Stability Principle. The Synchrocyclotron Creates New ParticlesWhy `Accelerators?́; Chapter 2: Small Accelerators Grow; The Comeback of Linear Accelerators; The First Synchrotrons; The Invention of Strong Focusing; Interwoven Histories; How My Passion for Accelerators Started; The Birth of CERN; Choice of the Large Accelerator; John Adams and the PS; The Limits of Fixed Target Accelerator Experiments; Chapter 3: The Last Fifty Years; A Turning Point: Particle Colliders; The First Electron-Positron Collider; Proton-Antiproton Colliders; Past, Present and Future Accelerators; Linear Colliders. The Stanford Linear ColliderElectron-Proton Colliders; Why Accelerators of Larger and Larger Energies?; A Third Motive; Chapter 4: Force-Particles and Matter-Particles; From Particle Accelerators to the Discovery of the Subatomic World; Hydrogen Bubble Chambers; Protons and Neutrons Are Made of Quarks; Enter the Hadrons with Several Strange Quarks; Matter-Particles; Coloured Quarks and the Strong Force; All Hadrons Are White; The Weak Force; Neutrinos, Neutrettos and the Cold War; Why Are Some Forces `Strong ́and Others `Weak?́; Charged Currents and Neutral Currents. Chapter 5: In Search of the Higgs FieldThe Standard Model of Forces and Particles; The LEP Electron-Positron Collider; LEP Particle Detectors; Fundamental Fields rather than Particles; Visualising Particles as Waves; Isolated Quarks Cannot Be Observed; Similarities Between Gluons and Photons; Differences Between Gluons and Photons; Electro-Weak Symmetry and the Higgs Field; The Higgs Field and Particle Masses; Does the Higgs Field Really Exist?; LEP and the Hunt for the Higgs Boson; The Rigour of Statistics; Chapter 6: The Discovery Announced, Susy and Beyond. Fermilab and the Golden Years of the TevatronProton-Proton Collisions in the Large Hadron Collider; The Detectors of the Large Hadron Collider; The Expected Discovery Is Announced; The Experimental Data; Supersymmetry and Superparticles; The Couplings Depend on the Energy Exchanged; Grand Unification; Strings; Criticisms of String Theory; Fermionic America and Bosonic Europe; Chapter 7: The Beginnings of Accelerators in Medicine; The Beginnings of Röntgen Rays in Medicine; Madame Curie, X-rays and the First World War; New X-ray Tubes; Development of Tumour Treatments.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 284 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 539.7/3; Popular works; Particle accelerators -- Popular works; SCIENCE -- Physics -- Quantum Theory; Particle accelerators; Science -- Nuclear Physics; Medical -- General; Medical -- Diagnostic Imaging; Science -- Cosmology; Particle & high-energy physics; Popular medicine & health; Radiology; Relativity physics; Medicine; Radiology, Medical; Particle acceleration; Science -- Physics; Physics; Electronic books; Popular works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319088709; 3319088696; 9783319088693
• Related ISBNs: 331908870X; 9783319088693
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 7, 2015).
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