Engines of discovery a century of particle accelerators
The first edition of Engines of Discovery celebrated in words, images and anecdotes the accelerators and their constructors that culminated in the discovery of the Higgs boson. But even before the Higgs was discovered, before the champagne corks popped and while the television producers brushed up t...
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New Jersey Singapore
World Scientific
[2014]
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| Edition: | Revised and expanded edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. I. Electrostatic accelerators
- ch. II. Cyclotrons
- ch. III. Linear accelerators
- ch. IV. Betatrons
- ch. V. Synchrotrons
- ch. VI. Colliders
- ch. VII. Neutrino super beams, neutrino factories and muon colliders
- ch. VIII. Detectors
- ch. IX. High-energy and nuclear physics
- ch. X. Synchrotron radiation sources
- ch. XI. Isotope production and cancer therapy accelerators
- ch. XII. Spallation neutron sources
- ch. XIII. Accelerators in industry and elsewhere
- ch. XIV. National security
- ch. XV. Energy and the environment
- ch. XVI. A final word - Mainly to the young.