Category: Collaboration
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Completion of CSC innermost station refurbishment and testing
During the week of March 19, the CMS endcap muon upgrade passed a major milestone, with the completion of the certification of the final 36 Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC) for reinstallation on the CMS detector.
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How “green” are we? The environmental footprint of an LHC detector
At the time when the minds of a few physicists are occupied with the design of a new detector, and the first meetings take place around a coffee table with detector engineers, the subjects discussed the most are the intensity and homogeneity of the magnetic field, the hermetic nature of the calorimeters, the material budget…
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Upgrading the CMS Control Room
The CMS control room is the heart of CMS operations, located at LHC point 5 in Cessy, France.
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YB-1 wheel closed; course now set towards physics re-start
The last few months have seen several important objectives of the CMS LS1 programme completed, giving increasing confidence in the final outcome.
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Stable Cold Tracker Operation Established (aka: the Tracker is Cool!)
After two years of planning, one year of implementation, and two million CHF worth of investments, the Tracker project has achieved its most important goal to enable the “Tracker Going Cold”.
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Students visit the heart of the CMS detector
More than 500 junior and senior high-schoolers from seven different locations in Greece had the opportunity for a virtual visit to the CMS experiment today in collaboration with the Open Discovery Space project.