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Heritage collection CERN-OBJ-CERN-OBJ-AC-081
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Quadrupole Magnet of the Large Electron Positron Collider
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The Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) was the largest lepton collider ever built, and gave high precision measurements of the W and Z particles. LEP was commissioned in 1989 and shut down in 2000, to leave room for the LHC. In conjunction with an energy upgrade, new, superconducting, final- focus (low-$\beta$) quadrupole magnets were built. The new magnets resembled much those built for the ISR luminosity upgrade, i.e., the coils were wound with a single rectangular wire. They operated at 4.5 K in a cryostat especially developed to fit into the limited space available in the shield placed in front of the experiment.
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2897143