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The book offers a comprehensive and updated introduction to fundamental particles, reflecting on the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson. Frank Close revises his classic work to explore the implications of this discovery and enhance understanding of particle physics. Through engaging explanations, he delves into the nature of the universe's building blocks, making complex concepts accessible to readers.

Drawing on years of conversations with Higgs and others, Close illuminates how an unprolific man became one of the world's most famous scientists. Close finds that scientific competition between people, institutions, and states played as much of a role in making Higgs famous as Higgs's work did

"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR. Against the background of pre-war Nazi Germany, the Second World War and the following Cold War, the book traces how Peierls brought Fuchs into his family and his laboratory, only to be betrayed. It describes in unprecedented detail how Fuchs became a spy, his motivations and the information he passed to his Soviet contacts, both in the UK and after he went with Peierls to join the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in 1944. Frank Close is himself a distinguished nuclear physicist: uniquely, the book explains the science as well as the spying. Fuchs returned to Britain in August 1946 still undetected and became central to the UK's independent effort to develop nuclear weapons. Close describes the febrile atmosphere at Harwell, the nuclear physics laboratory near Oxford, where many of the key players were quartered, and the charged relationships which developed there. He uncovers fresh evidence about the role of the crucial VENONA signals decryptions, and shows how, despite mistakes made by both MI5 and the FBI, the net gradually closed around Fuchs, building an intolerable pressure which finally cracked him. The Soviet Union exploded its first nuclear device in August 1949, far earlier than the US or UK expected. In 1951, the US Congressional Committee on Atomic Espionage concluded, 'Fuchs alone has influenced the safety of more people and accomplished greater damage than any other spy not only in the history of the United States, but in the history of nations'. This book is the most comprehensive account yet published of these events, and of the tragic figure at their centre

Antimatter is a weird opposite to matter that will destroy everything it touches; it could be the ultimate source of power or weapon of mass destruction. This book explains what it is and what it can do

The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at Harwell, Britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a trace. When he re-surfaced six years later, he was on the other side of the Iron Curtain...One of the most brilliant scientists of his generation, Pontecorvo was privy to many secrets: he had worked on the Anglo- Canadian arm of the Manhattan Project, and quietly discovered a way to find the uranium coveted by nuclear powers. Yet when he disappeared MI5 insisted he was not a threat. Now, based on unprecedented access to archives, letters and surviving family members and scientists, award-winning writer and physics professor Frank Close pieces together an answer to whether Pontecorvo's defection did indeed bring an end to a life of spycraft -and exposes the truth of a man irrevocably marked by the advent of the atomic age and the Cold War...

In this Very Short Introduction Frank Close describes the historical development of nuclear physics, our understanding of the nucleus, how nuclei form, and the applications of the field in medicine. Exploring key concepts, Frank Close shows how nuclear physics brings the physics of the stars to Earth.

Originally published: Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

In Particle A Very Short Introduction , best-selling author Frank Close provides a compelling and lively introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe. The book begins with a guide to what matter is made up of and how it evolved, and goes on to describe the fascinating and cutting-edge techniques used to study it. The author discusses particles such as quarks, electrons, and the neutrino, and exotic matter and antimatter. He also investigates the forces of nature, accelerators and detectors, and the intriguing future of particle physics. This book is essential reading for general readers interested in popular science, students of physics, and scientists at all levels.About the Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.

Allgegenwärtig und unsichtbar, fast masselos und voller Geheimnisse – die faszinierende Geschichte der Neutrinos wird von Frank Close erzählt. Diese „Geisterteilchen“ durchdringen uns und die Erde, ohne dass wir es merken. Der Physiker Wolfgang Pauli bemerkte einst, dass er etwas Schreckliches getan hatte, indem er eine Theorie aufstellte, die nie experimentell verifiziert werden könne. Es dauerte Jahre, Geduld und Einfallsreichtum, um einen flüchtigen Blick auf das schwer fassbare Neutrino zu erhaschen und die Wette Pauli zu gewinnen. Diese außergewöhnlichen Teilchen sind ladungslos, fast lichtschnell und interagieren selten mit Materie. Sie spielen in unserem Universum die Rolle grauer Eminenzen, die kaum in Erscheinung treten. Ihre Existenz ist so „scheu“, dass es erstaunlich ist, dass wir überhaupt von ihnen wissen. Neutrinos sind sowohl Überreste des Urknalls als auch Produkte von Sonne und Sternen, die in Billionen durch die Erde strömen. Close beschreibt die ersten theoretischen Hinweise auf ihre Existenz und den langen Kampf, sie zu „fangen“ und ihre Natur zu verstehen. An ihrer Entdeckung waren viele Charaktere und tonnenweise Spülmittel in tiefen Minen beteiligt. Trotz ihrer Winzigkeit tragen Neutrinos Informationen aus fernen Sternen und Galaxien und haben einen neuen Zweig der Astronomie begründet, der uns Einblicke in die frühen Momente des Universums ermöglicht.

Forty or so years ago, three physicists - Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft, and James Bjorken - made the spectacular breakthroughs that led to the world's largest experiment, the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Played out against a backdrop of high politics, low behaviour, and billion dollar budgets, this is the story of their work and its implications.