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LEP - The Lord of the Collider Rings at CERN 1980-2000: The Making, Operation and Legacy of the World's Largest Scientific Instrument

LEP - The Lord of the Collider Rings at CERN 1980-2000: The Making, Operation and Legacy of the World's Largest Scientific Instrument


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Housed in a tunnel 4 m in diameter and 27 km in circumference - built to a precision of 0.1mm per km - and integrated within a complex including huge underground labs and numerous surface facilities, the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) in its time was not only the largest but also one of the most sophisticated scientific research instrument ever created by mankind . Located at CERN near Geneva, LEP was built in 1983-1989, was operational until 2000, and successfully corroborated the standard model of particle physics through continous high-precision measurements. The author, director-general of CERN in the crucial period of the making of LEP, recounts vividly the convoluted decision making and technical implementation process - the tunnel alone constituted a most challenging geological and civil engineering project - and the extremely fruitful period of scientific research right up to the difficult decision to close down LEP, even at a time where the discovery of the Higgs seemed within reach.L EP was then dismantled in 2000 and its tunnel reused for the building of the next generation machine, the much more powerful Large Hadron Collider (LHC) , which is becoming operational in the fall of 2008, during the final preparation of this book. Written by the main actor in charge of making LEP a reality, this is the definitive account of the great story of a machine and the many thousands of scientists and engineers involved.

Table of Contents:
Why LEP and Why at CERN?.- The Difficult Decision of LEP#x2019;s Size and Energy.- The Approval, or How To Persuade Governments.- The Tunnelling Adventure.- The Environment #x2013; People and Nature.- LEP #x2013; The Technical Challenge.- The LEP Experiments #x2013; Institutions in Themselves.- What Have We Learned from LEP? #x2013; Physics Results.- Creating New Technologies.- Unloved but Necessary #x2013; Management and Finances.- How To Invite the Pope? #x2013; VIP Visits.- CERN #x2013; Bringing Nations Together.- The Complicated Transition from LEP to the LHC.- The Dramatic Last Period of LEP.

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From the reviews: "Herwig Schopper's energy and vitality remain undimmed, even though he turned 85 this year ! . His book surveys the two decades of the Large Electron-Positron (LEP) collider, extending far beyond his own reign as CERN director-general in the years 1981-88. ! The Lord of the Collider Rings is a valuable addition to particle-physics literature but it is mainly written for insiders." (Gordon Fraser, CERN Courier, Vol. 49 (9), November, 2009) "Being a CERN director-general is not simply a case of being an expert in particle physics and accelerator design, as Herwig Schopper describes in The Lord of the Collider Rings at CERN: 1980--2000 ! . As lab boss for most of the 1980s, Schopper also needed to handle billion-dollar budgets, manage rival teams of ambitious researchers, and deal with politicians ! . the book will be essential material for professional historians looking back on CERN's golden years." (Physics World, March, 2010)


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  • ISBN-13: 9783540893004
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 211
  • Sub Title: The Making, Operation and Legacy of the World's Largest Scientific Instrument
  • ISBN-10: 3540893008
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jun 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 155 mm


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