Mario Campanelli presents his book "Inside CERN's Large Hadron Collider"

Wednesday 16 Mar 2016, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

Library (CERN)

The book aims to explain the historical development of particle physics, with special emphasis on CERN and collider physics. It describes in detail the LHC accelerator and its detectors, describing the science involved as well as the sociology of big collaborations, culminating with the discovery of the Higgs boson. 

"Inside CERN's Large Hadron Collider", by Mario Campanelli, World Scientific, 2015, ISBN  9789814656641

Available for purchase here: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2000266

The French book "Dans le grand collisionneur du CERN" by the same author is also available from the Bookshop : https://cds.cern.ch/record/1697802

 

When/where: Wednesday  16/03/2016 at 1600 in the Library (bldg 52-1-052)

 

Ebook version (CERN computer account owners only)