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By Andrew J Millington,Markus Nordberg,Thorsten Wengler,Rob McPherson

When the invention of the Higgs Boson at CERN hit the headlines in 2012, the area was once shocked by means of this success of contemporary technological know-how. much less good favored, even if, have been the numerous ways that this benefited wider society.

The huge Hadron Collider — the best event in Town charts a direction during the cultural, fiscal and scientific earnings of recent particle physics. It illustrates those messages throughout the ATLAS scan at CERN, one of many large experiments which discovered the Higgs particle. relocating away from in-depth physics research, it attracts at the exceptional interest approximately particle physics aroused via the Higgs discovery, and relates it to advancements known within the smooth international, together with the net, its successor "The Grid", and the most recent melanoma treatments.

In this booklet, advances made up of constructing the 27 kilometre particle accelerator and its detectors are offered with the advantage of first hand interviews and are commonly illustrated all through. Interviewees are best physicists together with successive heads of ATLAS, a best historian of technological know-how, a hugely unique monetary strategist, a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist and President of the Royal Society in London, and specialists in lots of different fields. those informative and exciting insights offer either experts and non-specialists alike with a special window into the realm of recent overseas learn and its frequently outstanding effects, as exemplified by means of the ATLAS test. The narrative unearths the level and elegance of overseas collaboration essential to be successful, and the way massive businesses in addition to start-ups improve their items within the process.

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