Author: CMS Collaboration
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Passage of baton at the Tracker Management
At the turn of the year, the Tracker management baton passed from GianMario Bilei (picture, at right) to Karl Aaron Gill (picture, at left), who will be the Tracker Project Manager for 2011-2012. GianMario’s two-year term started on January 1st, 2009. Stepping down from the top responsibilty in the subdetector project, GianMario noted as the…
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CMS Awards to Tracker colleagues
The 2010 CMS Achievement Awards were given during the opening session of the December CMS Week, on December 6, 2010. Two out of the 14 awardees are Tracker members, whom we warmly congratulate: Gordon Kaussen, for outstanding contributions to the calibration of the Strip Tracker 2. Joshua Thompson, for outstanding contributions to the operations of…
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Jet Quenching observed by CMS in heavy-ion collisions
After only three weeks of heavy-ion running at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the CMS experiment is already yielding new insights into the condition of matter that existed in the very first instants of the Universe’s life, some 13.7 billion years ago.
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CMS results from first 4 months of 7 TeV collisions presented at ICHEP
For the past four months the LHC has been ramping-up the intensity of the beams, creating billions of 7 TeV proton-proton collisions.





