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An Introduction to Particle Accelerators
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There are more than ten thousand particle accelerators in the world from the linear accelerators used for cancer therapy in modern hospitals to the giant 'atom-smashers' at international particle physics laboratories used to unlock the secrets of creation. Many scientists and engineers spend their lives designing, constructing, and operating these machines - yet few universities include the subject of particle accelerators in their curricula. The few courses that do exist and the summer schools run by the big accelerator laboratories lack a simple introduction which covers the essentials of the subject for the many who need to learn how these machines work. This book fills that gap and takes the reader through each of the aspects of a modern accelerator giving enough information to unlock the door to the subject but does not overload the understanding with mathematics. Anyone with a general interest in modern technology based on a fascinating variety of physics and engineering will
find much of interest in this book.
There are more than ten thousand particle accelerators in the world from the linear accelerators used for cancer therapy in modern hospitals to the giant 'atom-smashers' at international particle physics laboratories used to unlock the secrets of creation. Many scientists and engineers spend their lives designing, constructing, and operating these machines - yet few universities include the subject of particle accelerators in their curricula. The few courses that do exist and the summer schools run by the big accelerator laboratories lack a simple introduction which covers the essentials of the subject for the many who need to learn how these machines work. This book fills that gap and takes the reader through each of the aspects of a modern accelerator giving enough information to unlock the door to the subject but does not overload the understanding with mathematics. Anyone with a general interest in modern technology based on a fascinating variety of physics and engineering will
find much of interest in this book.
- GenresPhysics
268 pages, Paperback
First published August 9, 2001
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Edmund Wilson
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Edmund 'Ted' Wilson was a particle physicist and visiting professor at Oxford University and head of CERN Accelerator School.
Edmund 'Ted' Wilson was a particle physicist and visiting professor at Oxford University and head of CERN Accelerator School.
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February 19, 2016
Lots of Big Science stuff. That's fine. Not enough of the little science that preceded it (such as Van de Graaff). I am not a physicist so the math was not important to me. I did find the narrative between quite informative.
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