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Lights out at LEP

DEC 01, 2000

DOI: 10.1063/1.2405520

Bertram M. Schwarzschild

As we were going to press, the CERN directorate announced that the 2 November shutdown of LEP was indeed the $e^{+} e^{-}$ collider’s final termination. The 27‐km LEP tunnel will now be made ready for the Large Hadron Collider, which should be providing 14‐TeV proton‐proton collisions by 2005. LEP had already enjoyed a one‐month reprieve in response to recent tantalizing hints of a possible Higgs boson with a mass of about $115 GeV {/c}^{2} .$ But, after heated discussion, it was finally decided that the extra October run did not uncover sufficient confirmatory evidence to justify a costly further extension of LEP’s 11‐year life.

© 2000. American Institute of Physics

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Volume 53, Number 12

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