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| The '''Large Electron–Positron Collider''' ('''LEP''') was one of the largest [[particle accelerator]]s ever constructed. It was built at [[CERN]], a multi-national centre for research in nuclear and particle physics near [[Geneva]], Switzerland.
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| LEP collided [[electron]]s with [[positron]]s at energies that reached 209 GeV. It was a circular collider with a [[circumference]] of 27 kilometres built in a tunnel roughly 100 m underground and passing through [[Switzerland]] and [[France]]. LEP was used from 1989 until 2000. Around 2001 it was dismantled to make way for the [[Large Hadron Collider]], which re-used the LEP tunnel. To date, LEP is the most powerful accelerator of [[lepton]]s ever built.
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| For more information, see [[wikipedia:Large_Electron–Positron_Collider|Wikipedia]].
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