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The Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) was one of the largest particle accelerators ever constructed. It was built at CERN, a multi-national centre for research in nuclear and particle physics near Geneva, Switzerland.

LEP collided electrons with positrons 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 leptons ever built.

The LEP design, a it evolved, was presented in the so-called Blue, Pink and Green books.

For more information, see Wikipedia.

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 LEP collided electrons with positrons at energies that reached 209 GeV. It was a circular collider with a circumference of 27 kilometres built in a tunnel roughly 100&nbsp;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 leptons ever built.
+The LEP design, a it evolved, was presented in the so-called [[Blue book|Blue]], [[Pink book|Pink]] and [[Green book|Green books]].
 For more information, see [[wikipedia:Large_Electron–Positron_Collider|Wikipedia]].