Hunting the Higgs

摘要

Finally! An insider's account of the most thrilling scientific event in decades. Smashing Physics by Jon Butterworth is a great idea. He is an important physicist who has made key contributions to particle physics. He is also a senior researcher at ATLAS, one of the two big experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. Better yet, Butterworth is an experienced writer. The book contains a fascinating inside perspective of the discovery of the Higgs boson. It offers an insight into the intense, bewildering and intimidating media scrutiny that physicists aren't used to, combined with intimate details about the life of a high-powered physicist and some lovely explanations of the physics behind the discovery.