Category: Collaboration

  • New CMS management begins mandate (2018-2020)

    New CMS management begins mandate (2018-2020)

    On 1 September 2018, a new spokesperson and two deputies took over at the helm of the CMS experiment for a period of two years.

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  • Successful scientific collaboration depends on diversity

    Last week, CERN hosted the first workshop on High Energy Theory and Gender focusing on recent developments in theoretical high-energy physics and cosmology, and discussed issues of gender and equal opportunities in the field.

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  • Four CMS scientists awarded with an important American award

    Congratulations to four CMS scientists, Kerstin Borras, David Saltzberg, Robin Erbacher and Paul Padley, who were elected as American Physical Society (APS) Fellows in 2018 for their exceptional contributions to the field of physics.

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  • Observing the Higgs with over one petabyte of new CMS Open Data

    20 December 2017: The CMS Collaboration at CERN is pleased to announce the release of the third batch of high-level open data from the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), available on the CERN Open Data portal.

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  • CERN donates computing equipment to CMS institutes in Ecuador

    CERN donates computing equipment to CMS institutes in Ecuador

    On 19 December 2016 a ceremony at CERN marked the tenth donation of computing equipment to an academic institution, the Escuela Politécnica Nacional in Ecuador.

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  • CMS releases new batch of research data from LHC

    CMS releases new batch of research data from LHC

    Rediscover the Standard Model of particle physics and much more with open data from the Large Hadron Collider Today, the CMS Collaboration at CERN has released more than 300 terabytes (TB) of high-quality open data.

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  • New CMS spokesperson: “An honour to be chosen to lead a spectacular collection of people”

    New CMS spokesperson: “An honour to be chosen to lead a spectacular collection of people”

    Fermilab’s Joel Butler will take the reins of the CMS collaboration in September, after having been elected as its new spokesperson during the last CMS Week.

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  • Physics Awards for the “Founding Fathers” of CMS

    Physics Awards for the “Founding Fathers” of CMS

    Michel Della Negra and Tejinder (Jim) Virdee have been recognized for their work on CMS by their respective national physics institutes.

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  • CMS is never idle

    CMS is never idle

    CMS is eager to see the first collisions of the LHC Run2. The recent news that the LHC restart may be delayed because of a hardware issue gives us extra time to prepare for those collisions.

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  • CMS recognizes achievements of young collaborators

    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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