The Large Hadron Collider: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe (Astronomers' Universe)

Preface
Contents
About the Author
1 The Story of Matter
	A Few Searching Questions
	The Smallest of Things
	Mysterium Cosmographicum
	A Particle Primer
		Thomson\'s Plum Pudding and an Unexpected Rebound
		The Quantum World and the Bohr Atom
	The New Quantum Mechanics
		Exclusion
		Fermi\'s Little Neutron
	Three Quarks for Muster Mark
	Building the Universe
		The Matter Alphabet
		We Are of the Stars
	The Hubble Deep Field
	Moving Forwards
2 The Worlds Most Complicated Machine
	The End of the Beginning
	Disappointment and Setback
	Court Case Number 1:2008cv00136
	Afterwards
	Overview: A Protons Journey
	The Journey to the LHC
	Collider Basics
	The Detectors
3 The Standard Model, the Higgs, and Beyond
	Generation the First  An Acrostic
	Feeling the Force
	The Higgs Field  Achieving Mass
	Feynman Diagrams
	Searching for the Higgs
	Supersymmetry
	Exotica: Going Up, Going Down
4 The Big Bang and the First 380,000 Years
	The Big Bang
	The Critical Density and
	The Microwave Background
	Primordial Nucleosynthesis
	Inflation, Flatness, Horizons, and a Free Lunch
	The QuarkGluon Plasma
	ALICE: In Experimental Wonderland
	Matter/Antimatter: It Matters
	Getting to the Bottom of Things
5 Dark Matters
	Interstellar Matters
	Where Are We
	Unraveling the Nebula Mystery
	The Galaxy Zoo
	The Local Group
	Galaxy Clusters
	Wheres the Missing Mass
	All in a Spin: Dark Matter Found
	Gravitational Lenses and Anamorphic Galaxies
	Some Dark Matter Candidates
		The Neutralino
		Looking for MACHOs
		DAMA Finds WIMPS, Maybe
		CDMS Sees Two, Well, Maybe
		Bubbles at COUPP
		CHAMPs and SIMPs
		PAMELA Finds an Excess
		Fermi\'s Needle in a Haystack
	ADMX
	Euclids Dark Map
	The MOND Alternative
	Dark Stars and Y(4140)
6 Dark Energy and an Accelerating Universe
	The Measure of the Stars
	An Expanding Universe
	Death Throes and Distance
	Future Sun  Take One
	The Degenerate World of White Dwarfs
	Future Sun  Take Two
	The Case of IK Pegasus B
	High-Z Supernova Surveys
	Dark Energy and CDM Cosmology
	A Distant Darkness
	Testing Copernicus
7 The Waiting Game
	Hoping for the Unexpected
	Massive Star Evolution
	The Strange Case of RXJ1856.5-3754 and Pulsar 3C58
	Small, Dark, and Many Dimensioned
	This Magnet Has Only One Pole
	These Rays Are Truly Cosmic
	Looking Forward to LHCf
	The King Is Dead Long Live the King
Appendix A Units and Constants
Appendix B Acronym List
Appendix C Glossary of Technical Terms
Index