Lights out at LEP
Bertram M. Schwarzschild · Physics Today · 2000
As we were going to press, the CERN directorate announced that the 2 November shutdown of LEP was indeed the e+e− collider's final termination. The 27-km LEP tunnel will now be made ready for the Large Hadron Collider, which should be providing 14-TeV proton-proton collisions by 2005. LEP had already enjoyed a one-month reprieve in response to recent tantalizing hints of a possible Higgs boson with a mass of about 115 GeV/c2. But, after heated discussion, it was finally decided that the extra October run did not uncover sufficient confirmatory evidence to justify a costly further extension of LEP's 11-year life.