Present at the creation : the story of CERN and the large hadron collider / byt Amir D Aczel.
By: Aczel, Amir D.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Crown Publishers, c2010Edition: 1st ed.Description: xvi, 271 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., photographs ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780307591678.Subject(s): European Organization for Nuclear Research | Large Hadron Collider | Colliders (Nuclear physics)DDC classification: 539.736094Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense conditions that existed some 13.7 billion years ago within the first trillionth of a second after the fiery birth of our universe. The collider is now crashing protons at record energy levels never created by scientists before, and it will reach even higher levels by 2013. Its superconducting magnets guide two beams of protons in opposite directions around the track. After accelerating the beams to 99.9999991 percent of the speed of light, it collides the protons head-on, annihilating them in a flash of energy sufficient—in accordance with Einstein’s elegant statement of mass-energy equivalence, E=mc2—to coalesce into a shower of particles and phenomena that have not existed since the first moments of creation. Within the LHC’s detectors, scientists hope to see empirical confirmation of key theories in physics and cosmology.
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