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The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Don Lincoln

The highest-energy particle accelerator ever built, the Large Hadron Collider recreates the conditions hypothesized to have existed just moments after the big bang. Lincoln explores what the collider does and what it might find.


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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.

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  • Title The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider
  • Author Don Lincoln
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780801891441 / 0801891442
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.3 x 0.9 in (22.86 x 16.00 x 2.29 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Science/Technology Aspects
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
  • Library of Congress subjects Particles (Nuclear physics), Higgs bosons
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008022647
  • Dewey Decimal Code 539.737

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Citations

  • Choice, 10/01/2009, Page 0
  • Scitech Book News, 06/01/2009, Page 40

About the author

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.

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