Overview
- New edition updated to include new information about the Large Hadron Collider and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, as well as the Atlas and CMS detectors
- Includes new information on how accelerators are used in medical diagnosis and treatment as well as how particle physics has impacted other fields such as biology, chemistry, and computing
- Discusses recent advancements on Higgs boson, string theory, supersymmetry, and ends with a treatment of open questions in the field
- Includes many new diagrams and illustrations
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Keywords
- Higgs boson
- Large hadron collider (LHC)
- Particle physics
- String theory
- Theory of supersymmetry
- adopted-textbook NY
About this book
This popular book introduces the ideas, terminology, and techniques of high-energy physics. Views of matter from the atom down to the quark are discussed historically, in language that is accessible to readers who have no physics background. The author has also added a list of Web sites where the reader can find more information on particle physics. Introduction by Sheldon Glashow.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo
Book Subtitle: A Guide to Particle Physics
Authors: Cindy Schwarz
Publisher: American Institute of Physics Melville, NY
Copyright Information: American Institute of Physics 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-56396-617-0Due: 24 September 1996
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVII, 118