Sessler A., Wilson E. Engines Of Discovery: A Century Of Particle Accelerators

Revised and Expanded Edition, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2014, 264 pages, ISBN: 9814417181, 981441719XParticle accelerators exploit the cutting edge of every aspect of today's technology and have themselves contributed to many of these technologies. The largest accelerators have been constructed as research tools for nuclear and high energy physics and there is no doubt that it is this field that has sustained their development culminating in the Large Hadron Collider. An earlier book by the same authors, this book chronicled the development of these large accelerators and colliders, emphasizing the critical discoveries in applied physics and engineering that drove the field.Much of the raw material for this book was collected from the work of others, sometimes from carefully constructed review documents, sometimes from books, and often simply from memories of conversations with our colleagues over the last 50 years. This is not a very technical book but we hope that we have recorded as much as possible of the history and the applications of particle
accelerators — the Engines of Discovery — as well as the lives of those who built them, before these matters are either forgotten or lost to living memory.Electrostatic Accelerators
Cyclotrons
Linear Accelerators
Betatrons
Synchrotrons
Colliders
Neutrino Super Beams, Neutrino Factories and Muon Colliders
Detectors
High-Energy and Nuclear Physics
Synchrotron Radiation Sources
Isotope Production and Cancer Therapy Accelerators
Spallation Neutron Sources
Accelerators in Industry and Elsewhere
National Security
Energy and the Environment
A Final Word — Mainly to the Young