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The next step.

Author(s) : CERN

Type of monograph: Booklet

Summary

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the next instrument of discovery in particle physics that will allow to further the extraordinary progress made during the last 100 years in understanding the structure of matter. CERN, large particle physics research centre, provides facilities for about half of the world's particle physicists and many of its nuclear physicists. The document contains a wide range of numbers, from the microscopic to the enormous. Contents: presenting the LHC; careful preparation; progress in particle physics; producing the events; detecting the particles; developing the detectors; making the machine; strategies for success; a fair share; broader horizons.

Details

  • Original title: The next step.
  • Record ID : 1996-0606
  • Languages: English
  • Publication: Cern - Switzerland/Switzerland
  • Publication date: 1993/11
  • Source: Source: 43 p. (21 x 29.7); fig.; phot.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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