If you’re at all interested in just how much work has gone into the LHC and its detectors, the Journal of Instrumentation has posted the 7 machine and detector papers online for free. I just checked, and it’s more than 1500 pages to catch up on before the big media event next week.
Normally these journals are quite greedy judicious (i know, i know, it’s a business!) about releasing refereed publications online to get ’em while they’re hot!
