THE CMS MUON DETECTOR: FROM THE FIRST THOUGHTS TO THE FINAL DESIGN

The project presented in this paper, the CMS muon detector, is fully described in Ref. 1. It was designed from 1991 to 1994(5) by a community of physicists and engineers from universities and institutes of several countries. The details of the design were fixed in 1997 with the submission of the CMS Muon Technical Design Report.(4) This paper reflects the views, the memoirs and the understanding of the author, who is responsible for the choice of the subjects and for any omission or error.