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Box 4 7550 GA Hengelo 1* The Netherlands Phone: +31 74 246 28 53 Fax: +31 74 246 26 78 www.holecups.com/sms e-mail: [email protected] IV CERN Courier, January/February 1998 US contributions to the LHC n a significant international CERN's governing body, Council, and fabricating these components. agreement, signed in the 'Indian distinguished theorist Maiani, who is Some 15 percent of the physicists Treaty Room5 of the Old Executive also the President of the Italian INFN, working on the large LHC Office Building in Washington, DC, was elected CERN's next Director experiments are from the US. on 8 December, US scientists will General, to take office on 1 January Further protocols were signed by contribute a total of $531 million 1999 - see page 28.) Martha Krebs, Director of the Office towards the 27-kilometre Large Under the agreement, the United of Energy Research, US Department Hadron Collider (LHC) now under States will provide goods and of Energy, Bob Eisenstein, Assistant construction and its physics services for the LHC, scheduled to Director of Mathematical and experiments. Subsequent protocols come into operation in 2005. Physical Science of the US National were signed at the CERN Council Specifically, the Department of Science Foundation, and CERN meeting on 19 December. Energy will provide components and Director General Chris Llewellyn This is the first time that the US will materials costed at $200 million for Smith during the meetings of CERN's contribute significantly to an use in the accelerator. Three of the governing body, Council, at CERN at accelerator to be built outside the department's national laboratories, the end of December, when the US US, and it is the first agreement Brookhaven, Berkeley and Fermilab, joined the growing ranks of CERN between CERN and the US will use $110 million to design and Observer States. government. About 25 percent of the produce systems for the accelerator's US experimental high energy physics interaction regions where the community are expected to do detectors are located. The remaining LHC preparations gather momentum research at the LHC. $90 million will be used for . The agreement also underlines the procurements from US industrial Since approval by CERN Council in global nature of the physics research firms, including niobium and niobium- December 1994, LHC preparations at CERN, with the US now joining a titanium for European production of have pushed ahead steadily, and participation which includes Japan, superconducting cable, and for some some 800 million Swiss francs of Russia and Commonwealth of of the superconducting cable supply. contracts, in line with budget Independent States, Canada, China, The United States will also provide estimates, are signed or in the India and Israel as well as CERN's an in-kind contribution of process of being signed. The total 19 European Member States. components costed at $331 million to cost of the LHC is 2488 million (1997 Signing the new agreement in the massive ATLAS and CMS prices). Washington were US Secretary of detectors, with $250 million from the 1998 marks a special LHC Energy Federico Pena, US National Department of Energy and $81 milestone following the award of Science Foundation Director Neal million from the National Science three major civil engineering projects Lane, CERN Director General Chris Foundation. More than 550 US worth together 269 million Swiss Llewellyn Smith and President of scientists from nearly 60 universities francs and the commencement of CERN Council Luciano Maiani. and six national laboratories in 25 large-scale civil engineering.