Tag: LEP

  • Preserving particle physics data

    Preserving particle physics data

    A lot of the science from our accelerators is published long after collisions end, so storing experimental data for future physicists is crucial

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  • Giorgio Brianti (1930 – 2023)

    Giorgio Brianti (1930 – 2023)

    Giorgio Brianti(1930 – 2023) — Giorgio Brianti, a pillar of CERN throughout his 40-year career, passed away on 6 April at the age of 92. He played a major role in the success of CERN and in particular the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) project, and his legacy lives on across the whole of the accelerator

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  • Henri Laporte (1928 – 2020)

    Henri Laporte (1928 – 2020)

    Henri Laporte(1928 – 2020) — One of the key figures in the construction of LEP passed away on 18 May 2020. Henri Laporte led the civil-engineering work for the Large Electron-Positron Collider in the 1980s, the biggest construction project for fundamental research ever undertaken and which included the construction of the 27 km tunnel that

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  • Thirty years of LEP’s Z0 line shape

    Thirty years ago this week, the four experiments at CERN’s LEP collider published the first of their famous results: the Z0 line shape, which told us that there are three, and only three, families of fundamental particles in nature

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  • The 1980s: spurring collaboration

    Former CERN Director-General Herwig Schopper recalls a decade of growth at CERN

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  • Collaboration at CERN: Greater than the sum of its parts

    The president of Council offers a personal insight into the continuing attraction of collaboration with CERN

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