| Exhibition Objects | |
| Report number | CERN-OBJ-AC-009 |
| Category | Accelerator |
| Title | LEP tunnel monorail |
| Description | A monorail from CERN's Large Electron Positron collider (LEP, for short). It ran around the 27km tunnel, transporting equipment and personnel. With its 27-kilometre circumference, LEP was the largest electron-positron accelerator ever built and ran from 1989 to 2000. During 11 years of research, LEP's experiments provided a detailed study of the electroweak interaction. Measurements performed at LEP also proved that there are three – and only three – generations of particles of matter. LEP was closed down on 2 November 2000 to make way for the construction of the Large Hadron Collider in the same tunnel. |
| Description (French) | Un train monorail circule le long du tunnel du LEP(Large Electron Positron collider), long de 27 km. Il transporte tout l'équipement utilisé pour la construction de l'accélérateur. |
| Year | 1985 |
| Keywords | AC ; LEP ; Museum Heritage Collection |
| Physical characteristics |
Weight: 315 kg |
| Location | Building 282 |
| Owner | PUBLIC |
| Access | Public |
| Borrower | (past) Microcosm |
| Additional information | Access to the pictures More about LEP 1st page 2nd page 3rd page Sur le LEP 1ere page 2eme page |
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