Yellow book

The Yellow book edited by Thomas Sven Pettersson and P. Lefèvre is one of the foundational design documents for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The Yellow book refined earlier proposals, “White book” stage, and essentially defined the LHC project as it would be built.

Following the Yellow book, "The LHC design report" was published in 2004 as a yellow report in three volumes. The first volume concerns the main ring, the second the infrastructure and general services and the third, the injector chain. This report provides a snapshot of the detailed design as it stood at the time of writing—early 2004.