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The book contains a description of the most important experimental results achieved at CERN during the past 60 years, from the mid-1950s to the latest discovery of the Higgs particle. It covers the results from early accelerators at CERN to the most recent results at the LHC and thus provides an excellent review of the achievements of this outstanding laboratory. It reflects not only the impressive scientific progress achieved during the past six decades but demonstrates also the special way of successful international collaboration developed at CERN.
List of contents
The Discovery of the Higgs Boson at the LHC (Peter Jenni & Tejinder Singh Virdee, FRS); Precision Physics with Heavy-Flavoured Hadrons (Patrick Koppenburg & Vincenzo Vagnoni); Towards the Limits of Matter: Ultra-relativisic Nuclear Collisions at CERN (Jurgen Schukraft and Reinhard Stock); Determining the Number of Neutrinos at LEP (Salvatore Mele); Precision Experiments at LEP (Wim de Boer); The Discovery of the W and Z Particles (Carlo Rubbia); The Discovery of Weak Neutral Currents (Dieter Haidt); Highlights of Neutrino Experiments at High Energies (Wolf-Dieter Schlatter); The Discovery of Direct CP Violation (Lydia Fayard and Daniel Fournier); Study of Discrete Symmetries and Basic Principles with Neutral (Kaons Thomas Ruf); An ISR Discovery: The Rise of the Proton-Proton Cross-Section (Ugo Amaldi); Studies of the Nucleon Structure with Polarised Beams and Targets (Rudiger Voss and Gerhard Mallot); Revealing Partons in Hadrons: From the ISR to the SPS Collider (Pierre Darriulat and Luigi Di Lella); Studies of the Antiproton, Anti-hydrogen and Other Exotic Atoms (Michael Doser); Muon g-2 Measurements at CERN (Francis Farley, FRS); CERN Discoveries: Rare Pion Decays at the Synchrocyclotron (Giuseppe Fidecaro); Highlights of Experiments with Low Energy Radioactive Beams (K Blaum, M J G Borge, B Jonson and P Van Duppen);
