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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data

Lincoln, Don.

The quantum frontier: the large hadron collider/Don Lincoln ; foreword by Leon Lederman.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN- 13: 978-0-8018-9144-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN- 10: 0-8018-9144-2 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Higgs bosons. 2. Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland).
3. Particles (Nuclear physics). I. Title.

QC793.5.B62L56 2009
539.7’376—dc22 2008022647

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