Inside Cern's Large Hadron Collider: From The Proton To The Higgs Boson

Download or read book Inside Cern's Large Hadron Collider: From The Proton To The Higgs Boson written by Mario Campanelli and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to explain the historical development of particle physics, with special emphasis on CERN and collider physics. It describes in detail the LHC accelerator and its detectors, describing the science involved as well as the sociology of big collaborations, culminating with the discovery of the Higgs boson. Readers are led step-by-step to understanding why we do particle physics, as well as the tools and problems involved in the field. It provides an insider's view on the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.