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Engines Of Discovery: A Century Of Particle Accelerators (Revised And Expanded Edition) (Paperback, Revised and expanded ed)
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Engines Of Discovery: A Century Of Particle Accelerators (Revised And Expanded Edition) (Paperback, Revised and expanded ed)
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Particle accelerators exploit the cutting edge of every aspect of
today's technology and have themselves contributed to many of these
technologies. The largest accelerators have been constructed as
research tools for nuclear and high energy physics and there is no
doubt that it is this field that has sustained their development
culminating in the Large Hadron Collider. An earlier book by the
same authors, "Engines of Discovery: A Century of Particle
Accelerators" chronicled the development of these large
accelerators and colliders, emphasizing the critical discoveries in
applied physics and engineering that drove the field. Particular
attention was given to the key individuals who contributed, the
methods they used to arrive at their particular discoveries and
inventions, often recalling how their human strengths and attitudes
may have contributed to their achievements. Much of this historical
picture is also to be found, little changed, in Part A of this
sequel. Since the first book was written it has become clear that
science, medicine and industry have a rapidly growing appetite for
accelerators for other applications. Part B of this sequel,
building on Part A, expands considerably on the applications of
accelerators: as synchrotron radiation sources (used for material
science studies, chemistry, biology), spallation sources (for
neutron scattering studies), national security (screening of
borders for illicit transfer of materials), medical applications
(cancer therapy with external beams and isotope production for
diagnostic imaging), energy, and environment (cleaning up waste
streams, powering nuclear reactors and fusion). In Part B we also
discuss the future development of accelerators; particularly
laser/plasma devices which potentially offer considerable savings
in the scale and cost accelerator construction for the more modest
energies required in these new applications. Finally there is a
description of the nature of the accel
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