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02753aam a22003738i 4500 001 E94AD55E6B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 151013t20152015mauaf b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2015033958 020 $a 1571463100 020 $a 9781571463104 035 $a (OCoLC)922632786 040 $a OU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c OSU $d DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d YSM $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a QC787 P3 N33 2015 100 1 $a Nadis, Steven J., $e author. 245 10 $a From the Great Wall to the Great Collider : $b China and the quest to uncover the inner workings of the universe / $c Steve Nadis, Shing-Tung Yau. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Somerville, Massachusetts : $b International Press of Boston, $c 2015. 300 $a xv, 167 pages (28 pages of plates) : $b colored illustrations ; $c 26 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-154) and index. 505 0 $a The next Great Wall -- A clarion call -- Smashing atoms -- Chasing the Higgs -- Beyond the standard model -- China on center stage -- An accelerator for-and of-the world -- The most amazing spinoff of all -- Epilogue: what lies beneath. 520 $a "The 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson was a sensational triumph--the culmination of a 48-year-long search that put the finishing touches on the so-called "Standard Model" of particle physics. While the celebrations were still underway, researchers in China were making plans to continue the centuries-old quest to identify the fundamental building blocks of nature. More specifically, they began laying the groundwork for a giant accelerator-up to 100 kilometers in circumference-that would transport physics into a previously inaccessible, high-energy realm where a host of new particles, and perhaps a sweeping new symmetry, might be found. The case for such an instrument is compelling: Even though the Standard Model can describe the behavior of particles with astounding accuracy, it is incomplete. The theory has little to say about the Big Bang, gravity, dark matter, dark energy, and other far-reaching topics. This book explains how an ambitious new machine-on the scale of China's proposed "Great Collider"-could provide us with a fuller understanding of the origins of our universe and its most basic constituents"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Particle accelerators. 650 0 $a Standard model (Nuclear physics) 650 0 $a Higgs bosons. 650 0 $a Physics $x Research $z China. 700 1 $a Yau, Shing-Tung, $d 1949- $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826041711.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E94AD55E6B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search