The LHC timeline: a personal recollection (1980–2012)

Luciano Maiani; Luisa Bonolis

doi:10.1140/epjh/e2017-80052-8

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EPJ H - Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physic

Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics

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Eur. Phys. J. H 42, 475–505 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/e2017-80052-8

Oral history interview

The LHC timeline: a personal recollection (1980–2012)^★

Luciano Maiani¹ and Luisa Bonolis²^a

Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
² Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

^a e-mail: lbonolis@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Received: 14 August 2017
Received in final form: 12 September 2017
Published online: 4 December 2017

Abstract

The objective of this interview is to study the history of the Large Hadron Collider in the LEP tunnel at CERN, from first ideas to the discovery of the Brout–Englert–Higgs boson, seen from the point of view of a member of CERN scientific committees, of the CERN Council and a former Director General of CERN in the years of machine construction.

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The text presented here has been revised by the authors based on the original oral history interview conducted by Luisa Bonolis and recorded in Rome, Italy, 1–3 March 2016.

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