The Large Hadron Collider: the greatest adventure in town and ten reasons why it matters as illustrated by the ATLAS experiment

When the discovery of the Higgs Boson at CERN hit the headlines in 2012, the world was stunned by this achievement of modern science.

Less well appreciated, however, were the many ways in which this benefited wider society.

This book charts a path through the cultural, economic and medical gains of modern particle physics.

It illustrates these messages through the ATLAS experiment at CERN, one of the two big experiments which found the Higgs particle.