Abstract
The LHC - Large Hadron Collider - ring in CERN's 27-kilometre LEP tunnel is the natural next link in an accelerator chain first forged in the mid-1950s with the decision to build Europe's first state-of-the-art high energy synchrotron at CERN. A lot of ground has been covered since the LHC idea was launched over a decade ago. While the basic machine design has moved through several iterations, preparations for the experimental programme are well underway. CERN is now responding to the December 1991 request from its governing body, Council, to supply detailed information on the technical feasibility of the machine, its costs, and its experimental programme. In the late 1970s, when plans for CERN's LEP electron-positron collider were being pieced together, far-sighted people were already looking further ahead. With the LEP tunnel itself a major investment for the future, the circumference of the ring and the tunnel cross-section were kept as large as possible, so that another ring could be fitted in when the time came. On the physics front, the ultimate quest was the mysterious higgs mechanism which controls electroweak symmetry breaking. The symmetry of the vacuum is broken by the higgs field. Somewhere along the line, this fundamental
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LHC - latest in a long line of rings.
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1993.
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title = {LHC - latest in a long line of rings}
author = {Anon.}
abstractNote = {The LHC - Large Hadron Collider - ring in CERN's 27-kilometre LEP tunnel is the natural next link in an accelerator chain first forged in the mid-1950s with the decision to build Europe's first state-of-the-art high energy synchrotron at CERN. A lot of ground has been covered since the LHC idea was launched over a decade ago. While the basic machine design has moved through several iterations, preparations for the experimental programme are well underway. CERN is now responding to the December 1991 request from its governing body, Council, to supply detailed information on the technical feasibility of the machine, its costs, and its experimental programme. In the late 1970s, when plans for CERN's LEP electron-positron collider were being pieced together, far-sighted people were already looking further ahead. With the LEP tunnel itself a major investment for the future, the circumference of the ring and the tunnel cross-section were kept as large as possible, so that another ring could be fitted in when the time came. On the physics front, the ultimate quest was the mysterious higgs mechanism which controls electroweak symmetry breaking. The symmetry of the vacuum is broken by the higgs field. Somewhere along the line, this fundamental field has to show itself as one or more higgs particles.}
journal = []
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year = {1993}
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title = {LHC - latest in a long line of rings}
author = {Anon.}
abstractNote = {The LHC - Large Hadron Collider - ring in CERN's 27-kilometre LEP tunnel is the natural next link in an accelerator chain first forged in the mid-1950s with the decision to build Europe's first state-of-the-art high energy synchrotron at CERN. A lot of ground has been covered since the LHC idea was launched over a decade ago. While the basic machine design has moved through several iterations, preparations for the experimental programme are well underway. CERN is now responding to the December 1991 request from its governing body, Council, to supply detailed information on the technical feasibility of the machine, its costs, and its experimental programme. In the late 1970s, when plans for CERN's LEP electron-positron collider were being pieced together, far-sighted people were already looking further ahead. With the LEP tunnel itself a major investment for the future, the circumference of the ring and the tunnel cross-section were kept as large as possible, so that another ring could be fitted in when the time came. On the physics front, the ultimate quest was the mysterious higgs mechanism which controls electroweak symmetry breaking. The symmetry of the vacuum is broken by the higgs field. Somewhere along the line, this fundamental field has to show itself as one or more higgs particles.}
journal = []
issue = {10}
volume = {33}
journal type = {AC}
place = {CERN}
year = {1993}
month = {Dec}
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