Author: CMS Collaboration

  • CMS Internal Newsletter, May 02, 2014

    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 (CERN) – Second TSG trigger tutorial (organized by the Higgs trigger subgroup): May 28 -…

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  • AGR data analysis jamboree

    The April Global Run (AGR), the first commissioning run in 2014, took place 7-11 April.

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  • Update from Physics Coordination (2014-05-02)

    Since the Easter break the activity in the Physics Coordination area has steadily increased on fronts.

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  • CMS Internal Newsletter, Apri 17, 2014

    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 2 (Upgrade) Technical Proposal Advances at Karlsruhe Reminder of upcoming CMS events: – Upgrade Technical…

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  • Phase 2 (Upgrade) Technical Proposal Advances at Karlsruhe

    Phase 2 (Upgrade) Technical Proposal Advances at Karlsruhe

    The first CMS Upgrade Week of 2014 was held at Karlsruhe in the first week of June [https://indico.cern.ch/event/294765/].

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  • Installation and commissioning of the ME4/2 Cathode Strip Chamber

    Installation and commissioning of the ME4/2 Cathode Strip Chamber

    Since March this year new layers of Muon chambers have been added to CMS on both YE3 endcap disks.

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  • Summary of the AGR (April Global Run)

    Summary of the AGR (April Global Run)

    The April Global Run (AGR) took place last week, Monday-Friday 7-11 April.

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  • Update from Physics Coordination (2014-04-17)

    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 line with the publication plan set at the beginning of…

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  • Preshower ready for installation

    Preshower ready for installation

    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) that provide power to and monitoring of the ES internal heating system.

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  • En route to 2015: TSG workshop (Apr 7-9)

    En route to 2015: TSG workshop (Apr 7-9)

    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 slides reports often last more than one hour.

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