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The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider

The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Don Lincoln

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The highest-energy particle accelerator ever built, the Large Hadron Collider recreates the conditions hypothesized to have existed just moments after the big bang. Lincoln explores what the collider does and what it might find.

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Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider
  • Author Don Lincoln
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0801891442I3N10
  • ISBN 9780801891441 / 0801891442
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.3 x 0.9 in (22.86 x 16.00 x 2.29 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Science/Technology Aspects
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
  • Library of Congress subjects Particles (Nuclear physics), Higgs bosons
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008022647
  • Dewey Decimal Code 539.737

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Citations

  • Choice, 10/01/2009, Page 0
  • Scitech Book News, 06/01/2009, Page 40

About the author

Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos, Alien Universe: Extraterrestrials in Our Minds and in the Cosmos, and The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind.