It has been a wonderful year for CMS. We are privileged to be on this great experiment at such a historic time. The public have never been more interested in our field and the excitement is building as we prepare for Run 2 in 2015. We have both…
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Collaboration
The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) is responsible for measuring electrons and photons produced in collisions inside the detector. It comprises of 75,848 lead-tungstate crystals, each with its own photodetector and electronics to form readout…
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Collaboration
Dear CMS Alumni, students, and postdocs,
We are delighted to announce that the CMS CB Career committee, CMS and CERN will be hosting a networking event for alumni, students, and postdocs in the Globe on 9 December, at 19:00. This glamorous event is…
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Collaboration
As you know, we have to elect the CMS CB Chairperson for the term July 2014 - Dec. 2016.
The election will take place during two special Collaboration Board meetings, held during the December CMS week:
on Tuesday December 10th evening: discussion…
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Collaboration
From the desk of the CB Chairperson
We have been receiving quite a few emails asking when the CB Newsletter would reappear. Finally we are resuming service. There have been CB meetings in DESY and CERN as well as in Taipei since our last newsletter…
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On 8 October, the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Professors Francois Englert and Peter Higgs “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which…
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Collaboration
One otherwise unremarkable day, the meeting of the CMS group at the University of Minnesota Physics Department took an unexpected, yet not entirely uncommon, detour to the pages of the web. This particular detour had brought us to the delightful…
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Collaboration
The CMS Collaboration Board career committee and the LPC management are pleased to announce that there will be a panel discussion on careers in Industry, which will be held at the LPC at FNAL in Chicago on 13 Nov 2013, between 18:00 and 20:00.…
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Collaboration
Guido Tonelli, CMS Spokesperson during 2010–2011, was awarded the prestigious Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physics Society, along with other LHC scientists from Italy.
The prize was established in 2001 to commemorate Fermi on the occasion of…
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Collaboration
Being a young researcher in a collaboration the size of CMS can be daunting, and requiring to move to CERN even more so. A new scholarship has been set up with the aim of supporting master's students, PhD researchers or post-docs of the CMS…
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Collaboration
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…
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Collaboration
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…