The members of the CMS group at the University of Maryland were impressed when they learned of Sascha Mehlhase’s LEGO model of the ATLAS detector. They were also jealous, and so a group led by Jeff Temple, Marguerite Tonjes, and Jaime Gomez decided…

Greetings! Thank you for the wonderful feedback we received on the inaugural issue of the CB Newsletter. Here is the second newsletter. We aim to publish an issue of the newsletter just prior to each CB meeting, and again approximately at the mid…

Sometimes, everyday words are co-opted by scientists and used as technical terms. One of these is the word “berry”. Talking to a botanist friend of mine, I learned that tomatoes are berries, but strawberries are not — the scientific meaning of a…

The Special Milner Fundamental Physics Prize is being awarded this week in recognition of the success of the international LHC Project, including the major contributions of the entire CMS collaboration, for the discovery of a Higgs boson as…

Following the results presented at the electroweak session of the annual winter conference, Rencontres de Moriond, CMS has now presented many new results for this week’s quantum chromodynamics (QCD) session. The results include many searches for new…

Dear Colleagues, The CMS Collaboration Board Career committee was established by the CB to provide resources needed by the members of CMS to further their careers. We would like to announce a panel discussion during the April CMS week, entitled "How…

CMS is presenting a wide range of results for the annual winter conference, Rencontres de Moriond. The first week of Moriond — 3–8 March — is devoted primarily to electroweak (EW) studies. Among the CMS results are further studies of the recently…

In the early hours of 14 February 2013, the first period of running for the Large Hadron Collider came to an end. After three very fruitful years of collisions at the LHC, the blank screens of LHC Page 1 seem very odd. “End of Run 1. No beam for a…

Professor Englert, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics along with Professor Peter Higgs, was at CERN to give a colloquium on "The BEH mechanism and its scalar bosons". Following his talk, he paid a visit to the CMS underground experimental…

On Saturday at 8.25am the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), bringing the machine’s first three-year running period to a successful conclusion. The following message marked the event on…

From the desk of the CB Chairperson Dear friends, The CMS Collaboration Board (CB) is pleased to present the inaugural issue of the CB newsletter. The CB is the parliament of CMS, and is at the heart of our wonderful experiment. The CB is best known…

The LHC has just delivered the first pPb (proton-lead) collisions with stable beams of 2013 and CMS is happily running with all sub-detectors on. We are also having common triggers with TOTEM and everything is behaving very well. Thanks a lot to all…