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

• Main Author: Schopper, Herwig. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: 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.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89301-1

Housed by a 4 m diameter tunnel of 27 km circumference, with huge underground labs and numerous surface facilities, and set up with a precision of 0.1 mm per kilometer, the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) was not only the largest but also one of the most sophisticated scientific research inst...

Table of Contents:

• Prelude
• 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
• The Technical Challenge of the Machine
• The "Experiments" - International Institutions by Themselves
• What Have we Learned - Physics Results
• Creating New Technologies
• Unloved But Necessary - Management and Finances
• How to Invite the Pope?
• CERN - Bringing Nations Together
• The Complicated Relation Betwen LEP and LHC
• The Dramatic End of LEP
• Acknowledgments
• Annexes
• Index.