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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher CRC Press
- Date of Publication 18 September 2026
- ISBN 9781041339649
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 242 Illustrations, color 700
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Short description:
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider - accessible to the general public: how does it work, why is it so difficult, and how do they manage to make it work anyway?
MoreLong description:
This book aims to make the everyday life of a particle physicist working on one small part of one of the biggest experiments in the world – CERN’s Large Hadron Collider - accessible to the general public: how does it work, why is it so difficult, and how do they manage to make it work anyway?
Chapters count down over a six-month period during which the author joined a new institute and was put in charge of an unfamiliar measurement that was complicated, crucial and urgent. During this time, the author had to quickly learn the background, the technicalities, and how to set up and run an experiment during the 2020 Covid-19 global pandemic.
Spoiler: many, many things went wrong – both trivial day-to-day problems and crucial scientific crisis – but these experiences provided a wonderful insight into why big science is such a challenge.
This book cleverly balances an autobiographical perspective filled with humor and anecdotes with an informative overview of the ‘ups’ and the ‘downs’ of science and why scientists love it anyway. It can be enjoyed by anyone, with no formal scientific background, looking to learn more about the day-to-day life of a researcher.
Key features:
• A unique ‘behind-the-scenes’ perspective into one of the largest experiments ever built by humanity.
• Explores the day-to-day life of a scientist working in cutting-edge research.
• Written in an accessible, informal and humorous style explaining difficult concepts with everyday analogies.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. The evening before. 2. What is a testbeam? 3. Six months earlier. 4. What is an SEU (and why do we care)? 5. Four months earlier. 6. What is the ATLAS detector? 7. Two months and one week earlier. 8. How to spot an SEU. 9. Two months earlier. 10. The most boring measurement in the world. 11. One month earlier. 12. How to organise a project with hundreds of members. 13. Two weeks earlier. 14. Time travel in the time of COVID-19 15. One week earlier. 16. What happened in the meantime. 17. The day before. 18. Good luck getting anywhere. 19. The day of. 20. Aftermath.
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