Beyond the God Particle (58 page)

aberration in lenses.
See
lens

accelerator.
See
particle accelerator

accelerator driven (subcritical) nuclear reactors (ADS),
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AGS (Brookhaven National Laboratory accelerator),
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ALICE (CERN LHC detector),
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Alice, of Lewis Carroll,
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alpha particle,
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Anderson, Carl,
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angular momentum.
See
spin

antimatter
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204

Apollo
11
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Apollo
13
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ATLAS (CERN LHC detector),
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atom,
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atomic nucleus.
See
nucleus

Bardeen, John,
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Becquerel, Henri,
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Berners-Lee, Tim,
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beta decay,
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beta rays,
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Bjorken, James,
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Bohr, Niels,
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Boltzmann, Ludwig,
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Bose, Satyendra Nath,
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Bose-Einstein condensate,
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boson,
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Bristol, University of,
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Broglie, Louis de,
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Brookhaven National Laboratory,
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C.
See
charge conjugation

CDF (Fermilab Tevatron detector),
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CERN,
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Chacaltaya, in Andes,
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charge conjugation (C),
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Charpak, Georges,
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chemistry, chemical reactions,
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chirality,
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CMS (CERN LHC detector),
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Columbia University, Columbia Accelerator,
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80

compound lens.
See
lens

Congress.
See
US Congress

Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire.
See
CERN

conservation of charge.
See
gauge symmetry; electric charge; weak charge

continuous wave linac (Project X),
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Cooper, Leon; Cooper pair,
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corkscrew.
See
chirality

cosmic rays,
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Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de,
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Cowan, Clyde,
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CPT,
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CP violation,
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cyclotron,
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Curie, Marie and Pierre,
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D-Zero (Fermilab Tevatron detector)
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dark matter,
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Davis, Ray,
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Davisson, Joseph,
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Democritus of Athens,
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detectors,
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See also
ATLAS; CMS

Dirac, Paul,
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DNA,
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Edwards, Helen,
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Einstein, Albert,
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electric charge,
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electric current,
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electric dipole moment (EDM)
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electric field,
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electromagnetic lens.
See
lens

electromagnetism,
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electron,
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electron microscope,
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electron volt,
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elements,
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42
.
See also
atom; Periodic Table of the Elements

energy,
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conservation of,
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electron volt, unit of energy.
See
electron volt

joule, unit of energy,
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