Instrumentation and measurement technologies for the CERN large Hadron Collider [Guest editorial]

The LHC experiments are the result of a coordinated effort of hundreds of labs worldwide, with multiple technologies that are not unique to CERN. To be precise, CERN has provided the locale and opportunity to catalyze a wide supranational community of researchers in engineering and experimental physics, each of whom has found in this ambitious project their own scientific purpose for more than a decade.