Bruno Touschek's Extraordinary Journey From Death Rays to Antimatter
This book tells the story of a unique scientific and human adventure, following the life and science of Bruno Touschek, an Austrian born physicist, who conceived and built AdA, the first matter-antimatter colliding-beam storage ring, the ancestor of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN where the Higgs...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | Springer Biographies
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction (including about the European roads to particle colliders)
- Touschek came from Vienna
- The road from Norway: Rolf Widerøe and the Strahlentransformator
- Touschek and Widerøe during WWII: between Hamburg and Berlin
- Bruno Touschek in Germany after the War: 1945-46
- Becoming a theoretical physicist in Glasgow: 1947-1952
- A Laboratory on the hills: Frascati and the Italian road to particle accelerators
- Bruno Touschek in Rome: January 1953-June 1959
- Touschek’s revolutionary proposal and the construction of a matter-antimatter ring in Frascati
- The French connection: from Frascati to the Linear Accelerator Laboratory at Orsay
- Bruno Touschek and Carlo Bernardini with AdA in Orsay
- Epilogue : After AdA.