The Large Hadron Collider
The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind
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July 21, 2014
Particle physicist Lincoln follows up The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider with an insider’s look at the LHC in the wake of the Higgs boson’s discovery. Particle accelerators are designed to replicate the high-energy conditions of the early universe 13.8 billion years ago, and the LHC is the most powerful accelerator ever built. Lincoln describes in vivid, accessible language how the LHC works, using surfers, tetherballs, and more. He also covers the day the LHC came online and the day the discovery of the Higgs was announced. What sets the book apart is a chapter of “War Stories” full of oddball facts, such as the economics of cave digging and that some LHC parts use brass from decommissioned Soviet naval shell casings. While nothing will actually blow your mind, Lincoln’s tales of the LHC, from its proton-making “Duoplasmatron”—“which seems to have stolen its name from 1930s pulp science fiction”—to the valuable information gathered by its detectors, offers readers fresh insight into some of the most significant research in modern physics.
September 1, 2014
Fermilab particle physicist Lincoln repeats content from Quantum Frontier, his earlier work on the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), in this post-Higgs boson-discovery text. However, the book stands on its own merit and is to be preferred over the earlier title as it is more complete and is grounded in LHC experiment data. The material is not overly technical, though; among the strengths of Quantum--approachable explanations of subatomic particles and how humans study them--that carry through to this one. For example, Lincoln illustrates the complexity of a trillion-proton particle beam by creating an analogy to Los Angeles freeways. The author has again employed physicist Dan Claes to provide amusing and informative illustrations. A chronological treatment covering from "Stuff We Already Know" to "The Future is Bright," the book is highlighted by an exciting chapter, "The Dramatic Higgs Saga," in which Lincoln accomplishes his goal of incorporating more of the "human element." VERDICT Laypersons interested in the building blocks of the universe and/or the newsworthy LHC will learn a lot from this work and enjoy the process.--Sara R. Tompson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lib., Archives & Records Section, Pasadena, CA
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