Michel Della Negra and Tejinder (Jim) Virdee have been recognized for their work on CMS by their respective national physics institutes. Michel has been awarded the 2014 prix André Lagarrigue for his “qualités exceptionelles de batisseur de…
CMS is eager to see the first collisions of the LHC Run2. The recent news that the LHC restart may be delayed because of a hardware issue gives us extra time to prepare for those collisions. Far from being idle waiting for collisions, CMS is busy…
Every year, the CMS Young Researcher’s Prize is awarded to CMS members who are less than around eight years into their careers after the completion of their PhD or an equivalent qualification. The Prize recognizes their outstanding achievements and…
Yes, that’s correct: photon collider.
The Large Hadron Collider is known for smashing together protons. The energy from these collisions gets converted into matter, producing new particles that allow us to explore the nature of our Universe. The…
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…
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,…
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…
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)…
The Trigger Studies Group (TSG) had its first workshop of 2014 in LAPP Annecy, on Mon-Wed Apr 7-9. TSG workshops are intense events, attended by around 40 people, where questions to the speakers during the talks are encouraged and unlimited, and 20…
CMS news from the past two weeks:
En route to 2015: update from physics coordination, 2014-04-04
Spring 2014 Offline/Computing Week
Completion of CSC innermost station refurbishment and testing
CMS news posted on the public Web site:
CMS…
After the wave of new and exciting results presented at the Winter conferences, the physics object and analysis groups are now focusing on the preparation of the CSA14 readiness test.
We have clustered the CSA14 “analysis” efforts around a few…
From the desk of the CB Chairperson
The CB Chair team is pleased to issue the second newsletter of the year.
Draft minutes of the last CB meeting at CERN (28 Feb. 2014) are here.
Some highlights of the CB meeting during this CMS Upgrade Week in…