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The Large Hadron Collider: Overall Motivation

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The motivations for building particle accelerators in order to probe the elemental structure of all matter is explained. After establishing the need to develop colliding beam type accelerators, the nature and utilities of the Large Hadron Collider is discussed. The related physics issues are outlined in a non-technical manner.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007, India

    Debajyoti Choudhury

  2. Regional Centre for Accelerator-based Particle Physics, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhunsi, Allahabad, 211019, India

    Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya

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  1. Debajyoti Choudhury
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata Haringhata, P.O. Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal, 741246, India

    Amitava Datta

  2. RECAPP, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhunsi, Allahabad, 211019, India

    Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya

  3. Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhunsi, Allahabad, 211019, India

    Amitava Raychaudhuri (Director) (Director)

  4. Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India

    Alok K. Gupta (Vice-President (Publication) & M. Vijayan (President) (Vice-President (Publication) &  (President)

  5. Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow. U.P., India

    C. L. Khetrapal

  6. Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, Maharashtra, India

    T. Padmanabhan

  7. Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, U.P., India

    Amitava Raychaudhuri

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Choudhury, D., Mukhopadhyaya, B. (2009). The Large Hadron Collider: Overall Motivation. In: Datta, A., et al. Physics at the Large Hadron Collider. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-8489-295-6_1

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