An insider's history of the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider: why it was built, how it works, and the importance of what it has r

"The past 100 years of accelerator-based research have led the field from first insights into the structure of atoms to the development and confirmation of the

After a historical consideration of the types and evolution of accelerators the physics of particle beams is provided in detail. Topics dealt with comprise line

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