The spring joint offline and computing week was held at CERN March 25-28 (the full agenda can be found in Indico). The main theme of the week was the readiness of the CMS computing infrastructure and the CMSSW software for the 2015 startup. The…

During the week of March 19, the CMS endcap muon upgrade passed a major milestone, with the completion of the certification of the final 36 Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC) for reinstallation on the CMS detector. The 72 chambers comprising the first…

At the time when the minds of a few physicists are occupied with the design of a new detector, and the first meetings take place around a coffee table with detector engineers, the subjects discussed the most are the intensity and homogeneity of the…

CMS news from the past two weeks: YB-1 wheel closed; course now set towards physics re-start Stable Cold Tracker Operation Established (aka: the Tracker is Cool!) En route to 2015: Alignment and Calibration Workshop Physics analyses approved for…

The CMS control room is the heart of CMS operations, located at LHC point 5 in Cessy, France. Although the space was originally conceived to house the computing farm for the CMS Data Acquisition/High Level Trigger system, its intent was modified…

A workshop on Alignment and Calibration (AlCa), organized by the PPD and DPG Coordinations, was held at CERN from the 17th to the 19th of March (https://indico.cern.ch/event/306000/). The main focus was the assessment of the needs and the plans for…

The last few months have seen several important objectives of the CMS LS1 programme completed, giving increasing confidence in the final outcome. In particular, the Tracker is running cold, the Phase 1 beam-pipe has passed acceptance tests at CERN…

After two years of planning, one year of implementation, and two million CHF worth of investments, the Tracker project has achieved its most important goal to enable the “Tracker Going Cold”. The Tracker was successfully (and safely!) operated “cold…

From the desk of the CB Chairperson The CB Chair team is pleased to issue the first newsletter of the year. With Ian Shipsey, our former CB Chair now well installed in his new job, the team now consists of: Claudia-Elisabeth Wulz (acting CB Chair),…

Dear colleagues, CMS has been invited for a total of 21 talks (16 plenary and 5 parallel) at the workshop "Physics at LHC and beyond", in the framework of the 10th Rencontres du Vietnam, taking place from August 10-17 in Quy-Nhon, Vietnam. There's a…

More than 500 junior and senior high-schoolers from seven different locations in Greece had the opportunity for a virtual visit to the CMS experiment today in collaboration with the Open Discovery Space project. With the use of lightweight…

Dear friends, We would like to share with you the selection of some stories from the beginning of the year year: http://cmsexperiment.web.cern.ch/newsletter/201401 - Tiziano Camporesi takes reins of CMS - ECAL Preshower removed from detector for…