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Author:
Carroll, Sean M., 1966-
Title:
The particle at the end of the universe : how the hunt for the Higgs Boson leads us to the edge of a new world / Sean Carroll.
Publisher:
Plume,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
x, 353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Subject:
Higgs bosons.
Standard model (Nuclear physics)
Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)
Discoveries in science.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [322]-332) and index.
Summary:
"The Higgs boson ... is the key to understanding why mass exists and how atoms are possible. After billions of dollars and decades of effort by more than six thousand researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland--a doorway is opening into the mind-boggling world of dark matter and beyond. Caltech physicist and acclaimed writer Sean Carroll explains both the importance of the Higgs boson and the ultimately human story behind the greatest scientific achievement of our time"--Publisher.
ISBN:
0142180300 (pbk.)
9780142180303 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)837144852
LCCN:
2013019334
Locations:
AQPC277 -- Lamoni Public Library (Lamoni)
GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

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