LEP was the culmination of a development which continued over several decades, starting with very small electron’positron colliders, such as ADA in Italy fitting into a normal room, and ending with LEP, the largest research instrument ever built. Therefore, some people think that technically LEP was just a blown-up version of earlier machines such as PETRA at DESY or TRISTAN at KEK in Japan and hence that no major technical innovations were necessary. This is a completely wrong perception. Because of its huge size and the resulting cost, many technical innovations were necessary to realize the project, sometimes implying considerable technical and financial risks. Only the most spectacular developments can be mentioned here.
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Schopper, H. (2009). LEP – The Technical Challenge. In: LEP - The Lord of the Collider Rings at CERN 1980-2000. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89301-1_6
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