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This contribution, a personal recollection by the author, is part of a special issue CERN’s accelerators, experiments and international integration 1959–2009. Guest Editor: Herwig Schopper.
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In the Pretzel scheme electrons and positrons travel in orbits which are distorted in opposite directions.
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For the consequences of these LEP results and the most recent LHC limits for the Higgs-particle see the contribution by Schlatter and Zerwas in this edition.
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This contribution, a personal recollection by the author, is part of a special issue CERN’s accelerators, experiments and international integration 1959–2009. Guest Editor: Herwig Schopper.
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Myers, S. (2012). LEP Operation. In: Alvarez-Gaumé, L., Mangano, M., Tsesmelis, E. (eds) From the PS to the LHC - 50 Years of Nobel Memories in High-Energy Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30844-4_4
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