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The LHC Timeline: A personal recollection (1980-2012). Oral History Interview

History and Philosophy of Physics 2017-09-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The object of this interview is 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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@article{arxiv.1705.04951,
  title  = {The LHC Timeline: A personal recollection (1980-2012). Oral History Interview},
  author = {Luciano Maiani and Luisa Bonolis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.04951},
  year   = {2017}
}

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33 pages, 15 figures. To be published on The European Physical Journal H. New version with added text and references