Author: CMS Collaboration
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Spring 2014 Offline/Computing Week
The spring joint offline and computing week was held at CERN March 25-28 (the full agenda can be found in Indico).
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Completion of CSC innermost station refurbishment and testing
During the week of March 19, the CMS endcap muon upgrade passed a major milestone, with the completion of the certification of the final 36 Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC) for reinstallation on the CMS detector.
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CMS presents a new precise measurement of the top-quark mass
The new top-quark mass measurement is the single most precise result as yet.
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A bound on the natural width of the Higgs boson
CMS has improved the constraints on the Higgs width, a fundamental property of this unique new particle, by more than two orders of magnitude.
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How “green” are we? The environmental footprint of an LHC detector
At the time when the minds of a few physicists are occupied with the design of a new detector, and the first meetings take place around a coffee table with detector engineers, the subjects discussed the most are the intensity and homogeneity of the magnetic field, the hermetic nature of the calorimeters, the material budget…
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Upgrading the CMS Control Room
The CMS control room is the heart of CMS operations, located at LHC point 5 in Cessy, France.