Category: Article
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The CMS detector is now wheelchair accessible
One of 2014’s important milestones at the CMS experimental site was the successful installation of a lift for providing wheelchair access to the deep-underground detector cavern.
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Delicate operations: preparing for insertion of the Pixel Tracker
Having successfully performed a Magnet Test in mid-November where the CMS magnet was run at the full operating field of 3.8 tesla, the focus in the CMS underground experimental cavern has transitioned to full activity to re-open the detector.
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CMS recognizes achievements of young collaborators
Every year, the CMS Young Researcher’s Prize is awarded to CMS members who are less than around eight years into their careers after the completion of their PhD or an equivalent qualification.
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CMS releases first batch of high-level LHC open data
“The scientific knowledge we produce is for everyone to share.”
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Waking a sleeping giant: the CMS magnet comes back to life
Monday morning. The control room is buzzing as the “Magnet Test” is underway at Point 5, home of CMS on the LHC ring.
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CMS open for Virtual Visits, from your school, science festival or exhibition centre
“Welcome to the CMS Experiment. We are 100 metres underground and I will now pass by the eye scanner to take you for a virtual tour and show you our massive scientific machine,” said CMS physicist, Abdollah Mohammadi, to 200 enthralled students sitting in the hall in the Sharif University of Technology in Iran last…
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Virtual visit brings CERN and South Pole to schools
The ATLAS and CMS experiments hosted a virtual visit together with the IceCube Experiment in the South Pole for students from five different European schools on 2 October.
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Software used in CMS construction goes open source
The CRISTAL database was one of CERN’s first knowledge-transfer projects. Originally built to track the production of the lead-tungstate crystals used in the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter, the software was licensed in 2003 to a start-up called Agilium, which has used CRISTAL for tracking the production of everything from solar panels to French driving licences.
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LHC data brought to life through music
I first studied music at the Conservatorio di Torino when I was in high school but stopped during my university studies. I returned to music maybe 25 years later, when my kids started to play instruments (they play the trumpet and the saxophone).
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Egyptian undergrads enthralled on CMS visit
The CMS Detector, just weeks before being closed to guests, had a visit from a group of undergraduate physics students from the University of Science and Technology, Egypt, as part of their CERN-wide tour from the 24 to 27 September.