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 F. Schopper

Book Overview

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 instruments ever created by Man. Located at CERN, near Geneva, LEP was built during the years 1983 - 1989, was operational until 2000, and corroborated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3662501457
• ISBN13: 9783662501450
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"