Author: CMS Collaboration

  • CMS Internal Newsletter, Jun 13, 2014

    CMS news since the last newsletter of May 19: Maintenance of the CMS Pixel detector Update from Physics Coordination (2014-06-06) CMS inaugurates its high-tech visitor centre Quark Matter 2014: the full crop from CMS Quark Matter 2014: news from CMS Technical Proposal Studies Group Workshop at Fermilab May 8-9th Reminder of upcoming CMS events: -…

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  • Maintenance of the CMS Pixel detector

    Maintenance of the CMS Pixel detector

    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.

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  • Quark Matter 2014: the full crop from CMS

    Quark Matter 2014: the full crop from CMS

    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.

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  • Update from Physics Coordination (2014-06-06)

    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).

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  • CMS inaugurates its high-tech visitor centre

    CMS inaugurates its high-tech visitor centre

    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.

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  • Technical Proposal Studies Group Workshop at Fermilab May 8-9th

    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 a Phase II upgrade using the physics reach and detector longevity.

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  • Quark Matter 2014: news from CMS

    Quark Matter 2014: news from CMS

    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 studying interactions of heavy nuclei.

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  • CMS Internal Newsletter, May 19, 2014

    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 Specifications Review: Jun 2 (CERN) – CMS WEEK!

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  • Update from Physics Coordination, 2014-05-16

    In the last two weeks the approvals activity continued to increase heading to QM2014 and LHCP conferences.

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  • RPC Upgrade (RE4) is complete

    RPC Upgrade (RE4) is complete

    On May 4th the RPC subproject successfully completed the installation of the RE4 upgrade detector.

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