Category: Collaboration
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Phase 2 (Upgrade) Technical Proposal Advances at Karlsruhe
The first CMS Upgrade Week of 2014 was held at Karlsruhe in the first week of June [https://indico.cern.ch/event/294765/].
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Installation and commissioning of the ME4/2 Cathode Strip Chamber
Since March this year new layers of Muon chambers have been added to CMS on both YE3 endcap disks.
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Summary of the AGR (April Global Run)
The April Global Run (AGR) took place last week, Monday-Friday 7-11 April.
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Preshower ready for installation
As reported previously (ECAL Preshower removed from detector for repairs), both Preshower (ES) endcaps were removed temporarily from CMS and moved to the SX5 building at the end of 2013. This was due to four faulty “feedthroughs” (two per endcap) that provide power to and monitoring of the ES internal heating system.
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En route to 2015: TSG workshop (Apr 7-9)
The Trigger Studies Group (TSG) had its first workshop of 2014 in LAPP Annecy, on Mon-Wed Apr 7-9. TSG workshops are intense events, attended by around 40 people, where questions to the speakers during the talks are encouraged and unlimited, and 20 slides reports often last more than one hour.
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Spring 2014 Offline/Computing Week
The spring joint offline and computing week was held at CERN March 25-28 (the full agenda can be found in Indico).