Author: CMS Collaboration
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News from the CMS experimental site: 22 November 2013
The past two weeks have seen several pivotal steps taken towards achieving some of the key goals for CMS during the LHC’s first Long Shutdown (LS1).
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Performing keyhole surgery on the ECAL endcaps
Repairs needed to be performed on a region consisting of 75 channels in the positive ECAL endcap, which had been inoperable since 2009.
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Spanish schools take virtual tour of CMS cavern
Early in the morning on 22 October, I grabbed my laptop and safety helmet and took the elevator 30 storeys underground to the CMS experimental cavern.
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LHC data to be made public via open access initiative
CMS is taking its first steps in making up to half of its data accessible to the public, in accordance with its policy for data preservation, re-use and open access.
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Englert and Higgs get the Nobel
Special mention to ATLAS and CMS experiments for confirming existence of the BEH mechanism by discovering a Higgs boson
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The Epic Saga of the CMS Cake
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.