Ebook: From the PS to the LHC - 50 Years of Nobel Memories in High-Energy Physics

This collection of lectures and essays by eminent researchers in the field, many of them nobel laureates, is an outgrow of a special event held at CERN in late 2009, coinciding with the start of LHC operations. Careful transcriptions of the lectures have been worked out, subsequently validated and edited by the lecturers themselves. This unique insight into the history of the field includes also some perspectives on modern developments and will benefit everyone working in the field, as well as historians of science.

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This collection of lectures and essays by eminent researchers in the field, many of them nobel laureates, is an outgrow of a special event held at CERN in late 2009, coinciding with the start of LHC operations. Careful transcriptions of the lectures have been worked out, subsequently validated and edited by the lecturers themselves. This unique insight into the history of the field includes also some perspectives on modern developments and will benefit everyone working in the field, as well as historians of science.

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This collection of lectures and essays by eminent researchers in the field, many of them nobel laureates, is an outgrow of a special event held at CERN in late 2009, coinciding with the start of LHC operations. Careful transcriptions of the lectures have been worked out, subsequently validated and edited by the lecturers themselves. This unique insight into the history of the field includes also some perspectives on modern developments and will benefit everyone working in the field, as well as historians of science.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Memories of the PS and of LEP....Pages 1-27
The CERN Proton Synchrotron: 50 Years of Reliable Operation and Continued Development....Pages 29-47
A Few Memories from the Days at LEP....Pages 49-62
LEP Operation....Pages 63-78
Proton-Antiproton Colliders....Pages 79-100
Electron Colliders at CERN....Pages 101-108
The LHC Adventure....Pages 109-117
The Future of the CERN Accelerator Complex....Pages 119-127
Memories of the Events That Led to the Discovery of the ?? ....Pages 129-136
The Discovery of CP Violation....Pages 137-160
Unification: Then and Now....Pages 161-168
Peering Inside the Proton....Pages 169-187
QCD: An Unfinished Symphony....Pages 189-197
The LHC and the Higgs Boson....Pages 199-207
The Unique Beauty of the Subatomic Landscape....Pages 209-218
QCD: Now and Then....Pages 219-225
Test of the Standard Model in Space: The AMS Experiment on the International Space Station....Pages 227-231
Changing Views of Symmetry....Pages 233-241

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This collection of lectures and essays by eminent researchers in the field, many of them nobel laureates, is an outgrow of a special event held at CERN in late 2009, coinciding with the start of LHC operations. Careful transcriptions of the lectures have been worked out, subsequently validated and edited by the lecturers themselves. This unique insight into the history of the field includes also some perspectives on modern developments and will benefit everyone working in the field, as well as historians of science.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Memories of the PS and of LEP....Pages 1-27
The CERN Proton Synchrotron: 50 Years of Reliable Operation and Continued Development....Pages 29-47
A Few Memories from the Days at LEP....Pages 49-62
LEP Operation....Pages 63-78
Proton-Antiproton Colliders....Pages 79-100
Electron Colliders at CERN....Pages 101-108
The LHC Adventure....Pages 109-117
The Future of the CERN Accelerator Complex....Pages 119-127
Memories of the Events That Led to the Discovery of the ?? ....Pages 129-136
The Discovery of CP Violation....Pages 137-160
Unification: Then and Now....Pages 161-168
Peering Inside the Proton....Pages 169-187
QCD: An Unfinished Symphony....Pages 189-197
The LHC and the Higgs Boson....Pages 199-207
The Unique Beauty of the Subatomic Landscape....Pages 209-218
QCD: Now and Then....Pages 219-225
Test of the Standard Model in Space: The AMS Experiment on the International Space Station....Pages 227-231
Changing Views of Symmetry....Pages 233-241
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