An excellent book
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This is an updated (Dec 2006), and slightly more advanced, version of the bestseller The Cosmic Onion. Suitable for school leavers/first year university students, as well as the general reader, it provides a mostly non-mathematical introduction to the current state of particle physics, with particular reference to quarks. In particular, it describes the principles behind the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the varieties of quarks, QCD, the electroweak force, neutrinos, CP violation, Higgs boson, and the big bang (219 pages). Numerous diagrams aid understanding, and the book is very easy to read. Recommended for all those interested in particle physics and cosmology.
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