Overview
- Makes particle accelerators and the physics they explore accessible to a wide audience
- Describes the great ideas that make new accelerators and experiments possible
- Contains numerous specially designed and easy-to-understand diagrams
Part of the book series: Copernicus Books (CB)
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accelerators, detectors, and particles. Background information about the main protagonists, along with pointers to further reading, e.g. from "Scientific American," are provided in endnotes.
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Book Title: Beams
Book Subtitle: The Story of Particle Accelerators and the Science They Discover
Authors: Volker Ziemann
Series Title: Copernicus Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51852-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51851-5Published: 31 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-51852-2Published: 30 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2731-8982
Series E-ISSN: 2731-8990
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 198
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 67 illustrations in colour
Topics: Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics