Detector Awards
Honoring CMS members for their impact
The CMS Detector Awards (2016-2019) recognized CMS members who made substantial contributions to the CMS detectors or upgrade projects.
Detector Awards over the years
| MUON | ||
| Michele Bianco | CERN | For outstanding and extensive contributions to the GE11 project, including chamber construction, installation and integration as Technical Coordinator of the project. |
| Ian Crotty | Wisconsin | For extensive important contributions to the construction, operation, and upgrade of the RPC detectors and associated systems. |
| Mohit Gola | Univ. of Delhi | For major contributions to the GE11 GEM chamber assembly and quality control, including the development of procedures to characterize chamber performance. |
| Jian Wang | Univ. Florida | For significant contributions to operation and upgrade of the CSC system, and notably the coordination and execution of the extensive upgrade of the on-chamber electronics during Long Shutdown 2. |
| L1TRG | ||
| Jia Fu Low | Univ. of Florida | For vital contributions to the Level-1 EndCap Muon Trigger and important studies for the Phase-2 Trigger Upgrade. |
| Ales Svetek | Wisconsin | For important firmware engineering contributions to the Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger and Phase-2 Trigger Upgrade. |
| HGCAL | ||
| Felice Pantaleo | CERN | For important contributions to the development of reconstruction code for the HGCAL detector, including developing a novel flexible framework for event reconstruction, optimization of the layer-clustering algorithm, and development for GPU processors. |
| Karol Rapacz | CERN | For important contributions to the HGCAL detector and systems design, including the development of the 3D model and detailed layout of the complex CO2 cooling system. |
| Arnaud Steen | National Taiwan Univ. | For leadership in the test beam program for the HGCAL detector, including development of the overall analysis framework and detailed studies of module performance. |
| HCAL | ||
| Salavat Abdoulline | Fermilab | For major contributions and leadership in upgrading the HCAL software to optimize operating efficiency and performance and to prepare for the front-end electronics upgrade. |
| Alexander Kaminskiy | Moscow State Univ. | For extensive contributions to the HCAL upgrade, including the DCS and DSS systems, test systems for the front-end electronics upgrade, and source calibration of the upgraded detector. |
| MTD | ||
| Ryan Heller | Fermilab | For critical contributions to the MTD detector design and prototype development, in particular developments for the characterization of LGAD sensors in lab tests and test beams. |
| Tahereh Niknejad | LIP | For important simulation work in the development of the front-end chip for the Barrel Timing Layer readout. |
| ECAL | ||
| Alexander Ledovskoy | Univ. of Virginia | For outstanding and unique contributions to the modeling and understanding of ECAL crystal and photodetector response evolution, and key contributions to the commissioning and performance optimisation for long term operation of the ECAL detector. |
| TRACKER | ||
| Stefan Maier | KIT | For outstanding contributions to the upgrade of the Outer Tracker, including development of procedures and systems in 2S module assembly and qualification and the development of a high-rate test stand for the module readout chain. |
| Yadira Padilla | Cornell Univ. | For important contributions to the mechanical design of the Inner Tracker upgrade, in particular the TFPX mechanical structure and overall integration of the Inner Tracker. |
| Tracker | |||
| Martin Lipinski | Aachen | For significant contributions to debugging the pixel detector DCDC converter failures, and for essential involvement in the emergency production of new converters. | |
| Mykyta Haranko | DESY | For significant contributions to the baseline DAQ for the Phase-2 outer tracker, and for µ-DTC firmware design and implementation. | |
| Jarne de Clercq | VUB | For significant contributions to the baseline DAQ for the Phase-2 outer tracker, and for µ-DTC firmware design and implementation. | |
| Kamil Cichy | CERN | For significant, essential contributions to the innovative “tilted barrel” mechanics and cooling for the CMS Tracker Upgrade. | |
| Muon | |||
| Lorenzo Barcellan | Padova | For outstanding, sustained contributions to the design, commissioning and maintenance of the DT chamber electronics. | |
| Andrew Peck | UCLA | For outstanding, sustained contributions to design and costing of new electronics, including complex optical link planning, for the CSC and GEM muon systems. | |
| Nicolas Zagandis | Ghent | For years of essential contributions and coordination of the RPC system including commissioning, operations and upgrades. | |
| Rosamaria Venditti | Bari | For years of essential contributions to the Muon system and in particular in the GEM project. | |
| BRIL | |||
| Nicolò Tosi | Bologna | For key contributions to the firmware for the µTCA readout of the BCM1F Background and Luminosity detectors and of the BHM Beam Halo Monitors. | |
| ECAL | |||
| Evgueni Vlassov | Moscow/ ITEP | For unique and outstanding contributions to ECAL operations since the start of LHC collisions. | |
| Dario Mapelli | U. Milano-Bicocca | For innovative contributions to the ECAL Test Beam data-acquisition system, exploiting modern IT tools and frameworks. | |
| HCAL | |||
| Nadja Strobbe | Fermilab | For leadership in characterisations of the frontend electronics for HF, HE and HB; and excellent leadership of the test beam for the HE and HB upgrades. | |
| Richard G. Kellogg | Maryland | For many years of fundamental contributions to many areas of the HCAL phase-1 upgrades. | |
| HGCAL | |||
| Erich Frahm | Minnesota | For outstanding contributions to the development of the new Endcap Calorimeter. | |
| Damien Thienpont | Polytechnique | For essential contributions to the design of the HGCAL readout ASIC. | |
| PPS | |||
| Enrico Robutti | Genova | For years of essential contributions and leadership in the design, construction and operation of the PPS silicon tracker. | |
| L1TRG | |||
| Gregory Iles | London/ IC | For sustained and outstanding contributions in designing trigger and readout electronics for CMS over many years. | |
| Thomas Williams | RAL | For exceptional work on the Phase-1 CMS Level-1 Online Software upgrade. | |
| MTD | |||
| Roberta Arcidiacono | Torino | For fundamental contributions to the development of the silicon sensors (UFSD) of the MTD end-cap detector. |
| Tracker | ||
| Pirmin Berger | ETH | For significant contributions to the construction, testing and commissioning of the Phase-1 pixel vertex detector of CMS. |
| Davide Ceresa | CERN | For the development of the Macro Pixel ASIC (MPA), the readout chip for the innovative Pixel-Strip modules for the Tracker Upgrade. |
| Laurent Charles | Strasbourg | For outstanding work over several years on the conception of the Phase 1 Pixel DAQ system, and for successfully bringing it into production. |
| Gabrielle Hugo | CERN | For decisive software and simulation contributions to the large Phase-2 Tracker Upgrade project. |
| Stella Orfanelli | CERN | For valuable contributions to beam halo monitoring; for the serial powering for the Phase-2 pixel detector; and for contributions to the design of the overall electronics architecture of the detector. |
| Muon | ||
| Dominico Dattola | INFN Torino | For long-standing and essential contribution to developing the design and integration of infrastructures for the Drift Tube Chambers and Barrel Resistive Plate chambers, and for vital commitment in studying and implementing new shielding to reduce radiation effects on the Muon detectors. |
| Minho Kang | Korea U. | For outstanding contributions to the production and quality control of the RPC gaps for CMS RPC RE4/3, 4/2 at KODEL (Korea Detector Laboratory), and for invaluable work on developing a new generation of RPC for the RE3/4-1 chambers for the Phase-2 Muon Upgrade. |
| Katerina Kuznetsova | Florida/ PNPI | For outstanding contributions over several years in leading the wide-ranging program of CSC longevity tests and performance studies in high background environments, as expected at HL-LHC, using the SPS muon test beam and the GIF++ high-intensity gamma source. |
| CT-PPS | ||
| Mirko Berretti | Helsinki | For unsurpassed contributions to the development, construction, installation and commissioning of the CT-PPS diamond timing detectors, as leading designer and project coordinator. |
| ECAL | ||
| David Bailleux | Fermilab | For outstanding contributions to all technical aspects of the ECAL, and for dedication to the ECAL laser system. |
| Thierry Romanteau | Polytechnique | For outstanding contributions to the development of the ECAL trigger concentrator card firmware. |
| Floris Thiant | Polytechnique | For outstanding contributions to the development and implementation of the ECAL trigger automatic masking software. |
| HCAL | ||
| Edward Laird | Brown | For critical contributions to the Phase-1 upgrade of the HCAL front- and back-end electronics, and for playing a leading role in commissioning one upgraded wedge of HE (HEP17) in CMS. |
| Daniel Noonan | Florida Tech | For playing a leading role in the Phase-1 upgrade of the HF detector. |
| HGCAL | ||
| Zoltan Gecse | Fermilab | For many important contributions to the design and development of the HGCAL project, impacting many aspects of the design. |
| DAQ | ||
| Frank Glege | CERN | For playing a leading role in the design and implementation of the Detector Control System, and for the integration of all sub-detectors into the DAQ. |
| Andre Holzner | UCSD | For crucial contributions to many aspects of the CMS data acquisition, in particular the networking and monitoring for Run 2. |
| Trigger | ||
| Karol Bunkowski | Warsaw | For exceptional work on the CMS Level-1 Muon Trigger. |
| Johannes Wittman | HEPHY | For crucial contributions to the successful completion of the Phase-1 upgrade of the CMS trigger project. |
| Tracker | |||
| Silvan STREULI | PSI | For long standing and outstanding work in the design and construction of the new low mass BPIX with integrated CO2 cooling loops and of the related tools for assembly and installation in CMS. | |
| Helmut STEININGER | HEPHY | engineer | For outstanding contributions to the firmware development of the past and the new pixel detector FED. |
| L1 Trigger | |||
| Thomas GORSKI | Wisconsin | engineer | For crucial contributions to the upgraded trigger algorithms on the evolutionary path to the full calorimeter trigger upgrade. |
| Alessandro THEA | RAL | For the long-standing and fundamentally important contribution to both the Phase-1 upgrade and subsequent operations of the Level-1 trigger system. | |
| HCAL | |||
| Vladmir EPSHTEYN | Moscow-ITEP | engineer | For his critical work on analyzing and interpreting the radiation damage of the HCAL scintillators and WLS fibers. |
| Kevin PEDRO | FNAL | postdoc | For outstanding contributions to the development of the offline software for the phase 1 hardware upgrade for HF and HE and for the development of the simulation and studies of the Radiation damage to the HE scintillator. |
| Muon | |||
| Flavio LODDO | BARI | engineer | For the crucial contribution to the design and finalization of the VFAT3 front-end electronics of the GE1/1 project. |
| Simranjit Singh CHHIBRA | Bologna | In recognition of his crucial contributions on developing, testing, and implementing the Alignment Position Errors (APE) in muon track reconstruction contributing to the success of the muon reconstruction, especially at high muon momenta. | |
| DAQ | |||
| Jeroen HEGEMAN | CERN | For essential contributions to the integration the new TCDS (Trigger Control Distribution System) in the phase-I upgrade Trigger and Data Acquisition subsystems. | |
| BRIL | |||
| Jessica Lynn LEONARD | DESY | For crucial contributions to the BRIL system. After being the author of the online read-out software for the custom-built real-time histogramming units (RHU) she has been in charge of the commissioning and operation of the full BCM1F system. | |
| Moritz GUTHOFF | CERN | For the excellent contribution in optimizing the frontend sensor choices for the Fast Beams Conditions Monitor, BCM1F and for the many contributions to the radiation simulation code of CMS. |
Pictures from the Detector Awards ceremony can be found here: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2258164