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) Phase…

The first CMS Upgrade Week of 2014 was held at Karlsruhe in the first week of June [https://indico.cern.ch/event/294765/]. The goal of the week was to present the first draft of the Technical Proposal (TP) for the Phase 2 Upgrade of CMS. The TP,…

Since March this year new layers of Muon chambers have been added to CMS on both YE3 endcap disks. Two additional rings of 36+36 Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC), which complete the forward η coverage of muon station 4 (so-called ME4/2) in the region 1.…

The April Global Run (AGR) took place last week, Monday-Friday 7-11 April. This being the first run since November 2013, the last run using the Run-1 DAQ, and the last run just before an extended cooling maintenance at P5, we embarked on the week…

We have had three important events on the “Higgs front” in the past few days: ⁃ Our H→ττ paper (HIG-13-004) is now accepted for publication by JHEP ⁃ The last of the “legacy” analyses, H→γγ, has now entered CWR and is heading towards publication, in…

As reported previously (ECAL Preshower removed from detector for repairs), both Preshower (ES) endcaps were removed temporarily from CMS and moved to the SX5 building at the end of 2013. This was due to four faulty “feedthroughs” (two per endcap)…