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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schopper, Herwig (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Temas:
Nuclear physics.
Particle accelerators.
Physics-Philosophy.
Elementary particles (Physics).
Quantum field theory.
Measurement.
Measuring instruments.
Science-History.
Nuclear and Particle Physics.
Accelerator Physics.
Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy.
Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.
Measurement Science and Instrumentation.
History of Science.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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