60 years of CERN experiments and discoveries /

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Imprint:Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2015.
©2015
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Advanced series on directions in high energy physics ; vol. 23
Advanced series on directions in high energy physics ; v. 23.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12333759
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Other authors / contributors:Schopper, Herwig, editor.
Di Lella, Luigi, editor.
ISBN:9789814644143
9814644145
9789814663182
9814663182
9814644153
9789814644150
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Summary:The book contains a description of the most important experimental results achieved at CERN during the past 60 years, from the mid-1950s to the latest discovery of the Higgs particle.
Other form:Original 9789814644143 9814644145 9789814663182 9814663182
Table of Contents:
  • The discovery of the Higgs boson at the lHC / P. Jenni and T.S. Virdee
  • Precision physics with heavy-flavoured hadrons / P. Koppenburg and V. Vagnoni
  • Towards the limits of matter: ultra-relativisic nuclear collisions at CERN / J. Schukraft and R. Stock
  • The measurement of number of light neutrino species at LEP / S. Mele
  • Precision experiments at LEP / W. de Boer
  • The discovery of the W and Z particles / L. Di Lella and C. Rubbia
  • The discovery of weak neutral currents / D. Haidt
  • Highlights from high energy neutrino experiments at CERN / W.D. Schlatter
  • The discovery of direct CP violation / L. Iconomidou-Fayard and D. Fournier
  • Measurements of discrete symmetries in the neutral kaon system with the CPLEAR(PS195) experiment / T. Ruf
  • An ISR discovery: the rise of the proton-proton cross-section / U. Amaldi
  • Deep inelastic scattering with the SPS muon beam / G. Mallot and R. Voss
  • Revealing partons in hadrons: from the ISR to the SPS collider / P. Darriulat and L. Di Lella
  • Properties of antiprotons and antihydron, and the study of exotic atoms / M. Doser
  • Muon g-2 and tests of relativity / F.J.M. Farley
  • CERN discoveries: rare pion decays at the synchrocyclotron / G. Fidecaro
  • Highlights at ISOLDE / K. Blaum, M.J.G. Borge, B. Jonson and P. Van Duppen.