Beschreibung:
Michael Hauschild takes the reader of this essential back to the beginnings of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, Switzerland; one of the most fascinating research centres of all, its history, its people and its accelerators. The author explains how particle accelerators work and how, starting from the first ideas, the Large Hadron Collider LHC was finally built, the world's largest particle accelerator and the world machine of today. After a stop of more than two years, the LHC was put back into operation in spring 2015 to discover the secrets of nature with higher energy than ever before.
The CERN laboratory and the accelerators.- A bit of physics - the Standard Model.- The first Nobel Prize: the W and Z0 bosons.- Particle accelerators - how does it work.- The Large Hadron Collider LHC.