The Large Hadron Collider by Lyndon Evans
This richly illustrated, full color book dissects the technology of the LHC into its component parts, showing how state-of-the-art techniques have been applied to beam control (injection, stabilization, acceleration, and dumping); cryogenics; superconducting magnet technology; and vacuum. It also describes the civil engineering and logistical challenges of the construction of the machine as well as the theoretical challenges that drove the scientific community to build the LHC. Each of the experiments is explained in terms of scientific goals, new methods of particle detection, and the specific challenges of handling the millions of gigabytes of data produced every second. Written by the lead scientists involved with the LHC, this book offers a testimonial of this marvelous endeavor from the people most directly involved in its conception and construction.Each chapter or sub-chapter is written by experts who played a major role and this is of course one of the main strengths of this book... overall this book can be read with enjoyment by readers with a wide range of backgrounds. ...
-Contemporary Physics, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2011
Lyndon Evans is the lead scientist of the LHC program at CERN. In 2008, he was named Nature Magazine’s "Newsmaker of the Year" and was awarded the Robert R. Wilson prize of the American Physical Society.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781439804018 |
| ISBN 10 | 143980401X |
| Title | The Large Hadron Collider |
| Author | Lyndon Evans |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Year published | 2009-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
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