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Title

LEP : the lord of the collider rings at CERN 1980-2000 : the making, operation and legacy of the world's largest scientific instrument / Herwig Schopper ; with a foreword by Rolf-Dieter Heuer.

Author

Schopper, Herwig F.

Publication

Berlin : Springer, c2009.

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Details

Description

xiii, 211 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

Written by the main protagonist responsible for making LEP a reality, this is the definitive inside story of a remarkable machine & the many thousands of scientists & engineers from around the world, whose efforts contributed to the new knowledge it produced.

Subject

• European Organization for Nuclear Research
• Geschichte 1980-2000
• Geschichte 1980-2000
• Colliders (Nuclear physics) > Switzerland
• Physics
• Science > History
• Weights and measures
• Quantum theory
• Particle acceleration
• Physics > History
• Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics
• History of Physics
• Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
• Measurement Science, Instrumentation
• History of Science
• Physics, general

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Why LEP and why at CERN? -- The difficult decision of LEP's size and energy -- The approval or how to persuade governments -- The tunnelling adventure -- The environment : people and nature -- LEP : the technical challenge -- The LEP experiments : institutions in themselves -- What have we learned from LEP : physics results -- Creating new technologies -- Unloved but necessary : management and finances -- How to invite the Pope : VIP visits -- CERN : bringing nations together -- The complicated transition from LEP to the LHC -- The dramatic last period of LEP -- Acknowledgments-- Appendices. CERN organigram 1984 ; Leading CERN staff during the LEP project.

ISBN

• 3540893008 (hbk.)
• 9783540893004

OCLC

• 269435382
• SCSB-12467571

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library