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…

In the past few weeks the physics groups have concentrated their activities on wrapping up the new results for the LHCP conference (June 2nd-7th) and preparing for ICHEP (July 2nd-6th). We have presented 12 new results at LHCP, excluding the very…

The new Building SL53 on CERN’s Cessy site in France is ready to welcome the thousands of visitors (30,000 in 2013) who come to learn about CMS each year. It boasts low energy consumption and the possibility, in the future, of being heated by…

The goals of the Phase II Technical Proposal (TP) are to describe the detector conceptual designs; present a plan for completion of necessary R&D; present preliminary production costs as well as an organization plan; and demonstrate the need for…

This article originally appeared in the CERN Courier on 22 May 2014. Although the CMS experiment was designed primarily for precise measurements in proton–proton (pp) collisions, in recent years it has demonstrated exceptional capabilities in…

CMS news from the past two weeks: RPC Upgrade (RE4) is complete Update from Physics Coordination (May 16) Reminder of upcoming CMS events: - Second TSG trigger tutorial (organized by the Higgs trigger subgroup): May 28 - Upgrade Phase 2 Trigger…

In the last two weeks the approvals activity continued to increase heading to QM2014 and LHCP conferences. In the searches area we had the review of one of the first analysis using b tagging in boosted topologies. B2G-14-002 presents a search for…

On May 4th the RPC subproject successfully completed the installation of the RE4 upgrade detector. The first disk was installed in December 2013, while the installation of the second disk (fig. 1) was scheduled in two time windows; the first, about…

CMS news from the past two weeks: AGR data analysis jamboree Update from Physics Coordination (May 02) Reminder of upcoming CMS events: - Upgrade Technical Proposal Studies Group workshop: May 8-9 (LPC at FNAL) - Upgrade Muon mini-workshop: May 19…

The April Global Run (AGR), the first commissioning run in 2014, took place 7-11 April. After a couple of weeks of chewing on the data (and the Easter holidays), a “Data Analysis Jamboree” was held on 29 April (https://indico.cern.ch/event/315825…

Since the Easter break the activity in the Physics Coordination area has steadily increased on fronts. The approaching of Summer Conferences is reflected in an increased rate of approvals. The Heavy Ion group has started its analysis campaign for…

CMS news from the past two weeks: The AGR (April Global Run) Update from Physics Coordination (Apr 16) Installation and commissioning of the ME4/2 Cathode Strip Chamber Preshower ready for installation En route to 2015: TSG workshop (Apr 7-9)…