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…
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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…
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Among the leading candidates to describe physics beyond the standard model of particle physics is Supersymmetry, a new symmetry that posits the existence of a partner particle for each known particle in the standard model. Supersymmetry, or “SUSY”…
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CMS news since the last newsletter of June 13:CMS closes major chapter of Higgs measurementsQueen Elizabeth II bestows Knighthood on CMS Physicist2013 CMS PhD Thesis Awards presented during June CMS weekECAL week, June 2014pakistan@cms.cern.ch…
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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,…
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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,…
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The data reveal that the particle discovered at CERN continues to behave just like the Standard Model predicts
Since the discovery of a Higgs boson by the CMS and ATLAS Collaborations in 2012, physicists at the LHC have been making intense efforts…
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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…
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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…
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CMS news since the last newsletter of May 19:
Maintenance of the CMS Pixel detectorUpdate from Physics Coordination (2014-06-06)CMS inaugurates its high-tech visitor centreQuark Matter 2014: the full crop from CMS Quark Matter 2014: news from…
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During Long Shutdown 1 (LS1), that started in 2013, both the forward Pixel (FPix) and the barrel Pixel (BPix) detectors were extracted from inside CMS for maintenance, in order to recover the broken channels. The extraction took place on May 2nd…
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A few of the results that CMS presented at this year’s Quark Matter conference were highlighted a couple of weeks ago in the CERN Courier article that was also posted on CMS news. That article was posted before the start of the conference, so it did…