LEP : the lord of the collider rings at CERN 1980-2000 : the making, operation and legacy of the world's largest scientific instrument / by Herwig Schopper
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
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
