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LHC milestones (archive)

Work for the LEP electron–positron collider continues to drive ahead, however LEP is far from being the last word in CERN's long term plans.

Early days: The challenges of the LHC (archive)

It is generally considered that the starting point for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was an ECFA meeting in Lausanne in March 1984,although many of us had begun work on the design of the machine in ...

Early days: The Evian experiment meeting (archive)

Compilation of two articles from 1992 talking about the construction of the LHC and its four detectors at the Evian experiment meeting.

Early days: Aachen: the case for LHC (archive)

500 physicists met in Aachen, Germany, in October to put the research case for the proposed Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

Early days: Lausanne LHC workshop (archive)

The installation of a hadron collider in the LEP tunnel, using superconducting magnets, has always been foreseen by ECFA and CERN as the natural long term extension of the CERN facilities beyond LEP. ...

Gas detectors advance into a second century

The latest developments in a technique dating back to Ernest Rutherford.

Energy options and the role of nuclear fusion

Chris Llewellyn Smith is no stranger to CERN. He served five years as director-general, from 1994 to 1998. During his mandate, LEP was successfully upgraded and the LHC project was approved. On his ...