# The long road to the LHC - Institution: CERN - Department: Globe - Taught by: Daniel Treille, Peter Jenni, Lyn Evans - Year: 2014 - Language: English - Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3013738) - Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch) - Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words) Lecture by Lyn Evans Abstract The key to the discovery of the Higgs boson has been the development of particle accelerators at CERN through the years. I will explain how a particle accelerator works and will follow the path from the construction of the Proton Synchrotron in the 1950s to the world's most powerful colliding beam machine, the Large Hadron Collider. Biography Born in 1945, Lyn Evans has spent his whole career in the field of high energy physics and particle accelerators, participating in all the great projects of CERN. From 1993 he led the team that designed, built and commissioned the LHC. He is presently a visiting professor at Imperial College London and Director of the Linear Collider Collaboration. Among his many honours he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was awarded a Special Fundamental Physics Prize in 2013 for his contribution to the discovery of the Higgs boson. "Some aspects of physics at CERN (and elsewhere), from the early days to the LHC era." By Daniel Treille. Abstract I will use stories of various physics breakthroughs to illustrate the major phases of CERN's activities and results, from the early days to the LHC era, putting them into the general context of global particle physics. Biography 1959: École normale supérieure (Ulm) in Paris 1963: Agrégation de physique 1967: Doctoral thesis in LAL Orsay 1968 – 1969 experiments on e+e– colliding ring ACO in LAL, France 1969: Maître de recherche in CNRS 1976: Indefinite appointment at CERN (research physicist) 1969 – 1973: Experiments at CERN PS 1972 – 1978: Experiments at Omega Spectrometer- Physics Coordinator of the Omega Spectrometer 1978 – 1986: Spokesman of the NA14 and NA14-2 experiments 1979 onwards: Participation to the conception and realization of the Delphi experiment at LEP 1990: Leader of Delphi CERN Group 1996 – 1997: Spokesman of Delphi 1998 – 2000: Coordinator of Delphi LEP200 physics 2000 onwards:… ## Lectures 1. [The long road to the LHC](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3013738/d1a5a2b14d00), 2 h 11 min (CERN's player)