The Large Hadron Collider Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe /

• Main Author: Beech, Martin. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Particle acceleration.; Mathematics.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5668-2

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest engineering project ever undertaken, and one of the most expensive. Why are physicists around the world so excited about it? What secrets of the universe does this gargantuan piece of machinery hope to reveal? What risks are there in operating it? Could...

Table of Contents:

• The Story of Matter
• The World's Most Complicated Machine
• The Standard Model, the Higgs, and Beyond
• The Big Bang and the First 380,000 Years
• Dark Matter
• Dark Energy and an Accelerating Universe
• The Waiting Game
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3
• Index.