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My two weeks with CMS
Looking outside my airplane window, seeing Geneva replace the vista of alpine glaciers, I suddenly began to distinguish the well-known underground path of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – lying between Lake Geneva and the Jura mountains.
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Visit CMS through the Power of the Internet
Each year, CERN welcomes around 100,000 visitors onsite.
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CMS welcomes 112-year-old mascot of Imperial College London
It is not every day that CERN welcomes a 112-year-old member of its university community. Boanerges (‘Son of Thunder’) is one of the mascots of Imperial College and is looked after by volunteer students of the City and Guilds College Motor Club.
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The LHC as a photon collider
Yes, that’s correct: photon collider.
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Hacking together a cloud chamber
Science Hack Day [SHD] is a 48-hour-all-night event where anyone excited about making weird, silly or serious things with science comes together in the same physical space to see what they can prototype within 24 consecutive hours.
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Hands-on work experience with CMS
Last week, I was lucky enough to spend an amazing week on work experience with Dave Barney of CMS, doing lots of real work including in the underground caverns of the detector!
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CMS Experiment’s analysis software featured on GitHub Showcases
Sixty-four petabytes or about 64 million gigabytes. That is how much data the CMS detector has collected from three years of proton collisions at the LHC.
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Induction course for newcomers in CMS
On 17th and 18th July CMS held its first “Induction Course for Newcomers”.
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The gateway to CMS physics analysis
The CMS Physics Analysis Toolkit (PAT) tutorial, the fifteenth edition of which ran from 30 June to 5 July, has come a long way.
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CHIPP Prize 2014 to Marco Peruzzi
Marco Peruzzi (Institute for Particle Physics, ETH Zurich) has been awarded the CHIPP Prize 2014 for the best PhD student in experimental or theoretical particle physics in Switzerland by the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics, “for his original contribution to the development of novel topological algorithms to identify photons in the electromagnetic calorimeter of the…