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| cmspeopl | Collaboration
Michel Della Negra and Tejinder (Jim) Virdee have been recognized for their work on CMS by their respective national physics institutes. Michel has been awarded the 2014 prix André Lagarrigue for his “qualités exceptionelles de batisseur de…
| adavid | Collaboration
CMS is eager to see the first collisions of the LHC Run2. The recent news that the LHC restart may be delayed because of a hardware issue gives us extra time to prepare for those collisions. Far from being idle waiting for collisions, CMS is busy…
| virdee | Collaboration
Every year, the CMS Young Researcher’s Prize is awarded to CMS members who are less than around eight years into their careers after the completion of their PhD or an equivalent qualification. The Prize recognizes their outstanding achievements and…
| achintya | Collaboration
Yes, that’s correct: photon collider. The Large Hadron Collider is known for smashing together protons. The energy from these collisions gets converted into matter, producing new particles that allow us to explore the nature of our Universe. The…
| barneyd | Collaboration
On 17th and 18th July CMS held its first "Induction Course for Newcomers". Stemming from an idea discussed by the CMS Management earlier in the year, the idea was to give newcomers an overview of the detector - including its history, operation and…
| sphicas | Collaboration
Marco Peruzzi (Institute for Particle Physics, ETH Zurich) has been awarded the CHIPP Prize 2014 for the best PhD student in experimental or theoretical particle physics in Switzerland by the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics, "for his original…
| sphicas | Collaboration
CMS news since the last newsletter of June 13: CMS closes major chapter of Higgs measurements Queen Elizabeth II bestows Knighthood on CMS Physicist 2013 CMS PhD Thesis Awards presented during June CMS week ECAL week, June 2014 pakistan@cms.cern.ch…
| sphicas | Collaboration
The year 2013 was a special year for the CMS PhD Thesis Award programme as Awards were presented to the authors of three outstanding PhD theses. In the wrap-up session of the CMS week on June 27, Awards were presented to Drs. Lorenzo Bianchini,…
| sphicas | Collaboration
Between 17th and 19th June, the picturesque and historic Italian city of Trieste played host to a gathering of about 40 members of the CMS ECAL Group for the first "ECAL Days" outside of CERN since the LHC startup. LS1 is a pivotal period for ECAL,…
| achintya | Collaboration
14 June 2014, London, UK Tejinder (Jim) Virdee FRS, a professor of Physics at Imperial College, London, and one of the founding fathers and former spokesperson of CMS, has been honoured with a knighthood “for services to science”. This was announced…
| sphicas | Collaboration
At its meeting on June 19, CERN Council authorised CERN management to finalise discussions with Pakistan for Associate Membership of CERN. This is the final stretch towards a major milestone for CERN: Pakistan would be the first Asian country to…
| sphicas | Collaboration
CMS news since the last newsletter of May 19: Maintenance of the CMS Pixel detector Update from Physics Coordination (2014-06-06) CMS inaugurates its high-tech visitor centre Quark Matter 2014: the full crop from CMS Quark Matter 2014: news from…