Mihir Khanna, from the Dhirubhai Ambani International School in Mumbai, India, was one of hundreds of high-school interns who come to CERN each year. He recounts his once-in-a-lifetime experience below. Near the foothills of the Alps, a short…

Despite the violent nature of the particle collisions that take place inside the CMS detector, the cathedral-sized cavern in which it sits thirty storeys underground exudes a certain peaceful calm. This is all the more true during the ongoing period…

CMS is in many ways a living entity, undergoing change from time to time, with components being replaced or upgraded as their ability to handle the LHC's collisions reduces. When the LHC returns to action in 2015, the collision-energy will be…

Over recent weeks, members of the TE-VSC group have been removing seven components of the beam pipe located at the heart of the CMS detector. The delicate operations involved have been performed in several stages as the detector opening work has…

Dear Colleagues, During the May CMS week, we had a very successful panel discussion featuring CMS Alumni who are now employed outside of high energy physics. The panel featured speakers employed near Geneva. A recording of the panel can be found…

The EPS High Energy Physics Division announces the winners of its 2013 prizes, which will be awarded at the Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2013), Stockholm (Sweden) 18-24 July 2013 (http://eps-hep2013.eu/): The 2013 High…

Thank you all for the continued positive feedback on the CB Newsletter. There is always a lot happening during a CMS week. Among the many activities are three CB meetings, two of these are associated with the election of the next CMS Spokesperson.…

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…

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…

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…

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…