LEP - The Lord of the Collider Rings at CERN 1980-2000 : The Making, Operation and Legacy of the World's Largest Scientific Instrument
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...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Sprog: | Anglais |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2009.
Cham : Springer Nature |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • 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, Berlin, Springer, 2009, 1 vol. (XII-211 p.), 978-3-540-89300-4 • LEP - The Lord of the Collider Rings at CERN 1980-2000, Texte imprimé, 9783540893622 • LEP - The Lord of the Collider Rings at CERN 1980-2000, Texte imprimé, 9783662501450 |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 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.