LEP - The Lord of the Collider Rings at CERN 1980-2000

• Why LEP and Why at CERN?.- The Difficult Decision of LEP#x2019;s Size and Energy.- The Approval, or How To Persuade Governments.- The Tunnelling Adventure.- The Environment #x2013; People and Nature.- LEP #x2013; The Technical Challenge.- The LEP Experiments #x2013; Institutions in Themselves.- What Have We Learned from LEP? #x2013; Physics Results.- Creating New Technologies.- Unloved but Necessary #x2013; Management and Finances.- How To Invite the Pope? #x2013; VIP Visits.- CERN #x2013; Bringing Nations Together.- The Complicated Transition from LEP to the LHC.- The Dramatic Last Period of LEP.

From the reviews:"Herwig Schopper’s energy and vitality remain undimmed, even though he turned 85 this year … . His book surveys the two decades of the Large Electron-Positron (LEP) collider, extending far beyond his own reign as CERN director-general in the years 1981-88. … The Lord of the Collider Rings is a valuable addition to particle-physics literature but it is mainly written for insiders." (Gordon Fraser, CERN Courier, Vol. 49 (9), November, 2009)“Being a CERN director-general is not simply a case of being an expert in particle physics and accelerator design, as Herwig Schopper describes in The Lord of the Collider Rings at CERN: 1980–2000 … . As lab boss for most of the 1980s, Schopper also needed to handle billion-dollar budgets, manage rival teams of ambitious researchers, and deal with politicians … . the book will be essential material for professional historians looking back on CERN’s golden years.” (Physics World, March, 2010)