Publisher's Synopsis
This book gives a concise sketch of the entire development of the ever-growing knowledge about 'elementary particles' and 'elementary forces', beginning from the discovery of electron till the up-to-date attempts to discover Higgs Bosons and other mysterious particles after successfully operating a gigantic Accelerator the 'Large Hadron Collider' (LHC), which has been installed at CERN, near Geneva in Switzerland. The book includes discussions on Particle Accelerators, Particle Detectors, Fundamental Forces, Conservation Laws and Underlying Symmetries, as well as information about Higgs Boson, Internal Structure of Protons and Neutrons, and Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Neutrinos. This book strives to fulfil the need for knowledge on Particle Physics to all the beginners, including the undergraduate students and the researchers in this field.
