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Illustrations copyright © 2017 by Jeff Weigel
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Latta, Sara L., author. | Weigel, Jeff, 1958– illustrator.
Title: Smash! : exploring the mysteries of the universe with the Large Hadron Collider / written by Sara Latta ;
illustrated by Jeff Weigel.
Other titles: Exploring the mysteries of the universe with the Large Hadron Collider
Description: Minneapolis, MN : Graphic Universe, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., [2017] | Includes
bibliographical references. | Audience: 13–18. | Audience: 9 to 12.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016017321 (print) | LCCN 2016021130 (ebook) | ISBN 9781467785518 (lb ; alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781512430707 (pb ; alk. paper) | ISBN 9781512427011 (eb pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)—Juvenile literature. | Higgs bosons—Juvenile
literature. | Particles (Nuclear physics)—Juvenile literature. | European Organization for Nuclear Research—
Juvenile literature.
Classification: LCC QC787.P73 L38 2017 (print) | LCC QC787.P73 (ebook) | DDC 539.7/36—dc23
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They say an author’s books are like her children, and so I dedicate this
baby to my husband, Tony Liss, who made it possible. (Alison, Caitlin,
and Eli, you’re still my favorites!) —S.L.
For Sid and Lena—two charmed quarks —J.W.
