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Science Journal – Élémentaire – No. 7: Quand lunivers fait boom!
This is number 7 of a series of 8 journals. No.7 was published in Summer 2009. Complete title of journal is “Élémentaire – de linfiniment petit à linfiniment grand.” Élémentaire (“Elementary”) is an outreach journal in French whose eight issues cover the particle physics, from the atom to the discoveries expected at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Each issue contains about 15 recurring articles which present the stakes of the physics of the infinitely small, such as the tools and the methods used to study this physics. The main discoveries in this research field over the years are described as well. All the articles can be downloaded for free from the Élémentaire website http://elementaire.web.lal.in2p3.fr while printed versions of the different issues can be purchased online. For a complete list of subjects contained in Journal No. 7, see below. Contents (English Translation) – No. 7: Appetizer: Cosmic Archeology: Reconstructing the history of our universe History: A short history of cosmology Interview: Jean-Loup Puget Research Center: Gravitational wave observatories Experiment: The Planck mission Detection: Bolometers Benefits: The GPS Analysis: Fourier transform and applications to the CMB Accelerators: A very serious subject: Cosmic accelerators Discoveries: The cosmic microwave background (CMB) Theory: The cosmological standard model The killer question: What’s the weight of the vacuum? Nuclear energy: Towards a future energy source The LHC: LHC Startup: September 10, 2008 What Happened: GLAST:a new “star” in the sky; PAMELA: Positron Watch! Contents (original French) – No.7: Apéritif: Larchéologie cosmique: reconstruire lhistoire de notre univers Histoire: Petite histoire de la cosmologie Interview: Jean-Loup Puget Centre de recherche: Observatoires dondes gravitationnelles Expérience: La mission Planck Détection: Bolomètres Retombées: Le GPS Analyse: Transformée de Fourier et applications au CMB Accélérateurs: Un sujet très sérieux :les accélérateurs co(s)miques Découvertes: Le rayonnement fossile Théorie: Le modèle cosmologique standard La question qui tue: Combien pèse le vide ? Énergie nucléaire: ITER : vers une future source dénergie ? Le LHC: LHCb : Démarrage du LHC : le 10 septembre 2008 ICPACKOI: GLAST : une nouvelle «star» dans le ciel PAMELA : alerte aux positrons !