Literature in Focus - The CERN Large Hadron Collider: Accelerator and Experiments / ed. by Rudiger Voss and Amos Breskin

Thursday 11 Mar 2010, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

Library, 52 1-052 (CERN)

Seven major articles on the LHC and its detectors, published electronically in a special issue of the Journal of Instrumentation, form the complete scientific documentation on the design and construction of the entire LHC project.

This landmark publication is probably the first time that a major new accelerator project has been documented in such a comprehensive, coherent and up-to-date manner prior to going into operation. The papers should for many years to come serve as key references for the stream of scientific results that will begin to emerge from the LHC after the first collisions this year. It was therefore decided also to produce printed copies of this article collection – the result is a beautiful two volume edition comprising some 1600 pages. Last week the whole lot arrived at CERN and is now ready for distribution. Each of the LHC collaborations has bought a set of copies to be given to their participating institutions and CERN will ensure that the books are included in all relevant libraries around the world. Personal copies can be obtained from the CERN Bookshop, hosted in the Library, for 20 CHF per set.

Concerning the electronic version, although published in a refereed scientific journal, the articles are completely free to download and read online under an Open Access scheme, without requiring a journal subscription (http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.lhc/jinst).

To celebrate the arrival of the hard copies, the Library invites you to a "Literature in Focus" event, where the editors of the different articles will highlight the significance of these technical publications and the process the collaborations have gone through in setting up the mechanisms for handling the authoring process of papers with such large author lists.