Category: Collaboration

  • The Epic Saga of the CMS Cake

    The Epic Saga of the CMS Cake

    One otherwise unremarkable day, the meeting of the CMS group at the University of Minnesota Physics Department took an unexpected, yet not entirely uncommon, detour to the pages of the web.

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  • Panel Discussion at LPC, FNAL on 13 Nov 2013

    The CMS Collaboration Board career committee and the LPC management are pleased to announce that there will be a panel discussion on careers in Industry, which will be held at the LPC at FNAL in Chicago on 13 Nov 2013, between 18:00 and 20:00. Panelists include: Jim Pivarski, Open Data Group Gena Kukartsev, Pearson North…

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  • Enrico Fermi Prize awarded to former CMS Spokesperson

    Enrico Fermi Prize awarded to former CMS Spokesperson

    Guido Tonelli, CMS Spokesperson during 2010–2011, was awarded the prestigious Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physics Society, along with other LHC scientists from Italy.

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  • CMS FPS: New scholarship to support young scientists

    CMS FPS: New scholarship to support young scientists

    Being a young researcher in a collaboration the size of CMS can be daunting, and requiring to move to CERN even more so.

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  • My internship at CERN, an unforgettable experience

    My internship at CERN, an unforgettable experience

    Mihir Khanna, from the Dhirubhai Ambani International School in Mumbai, India, was one of hundreds of high-school interns who come to CERN each year.

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  • From our archives: the Shrine of St Barbara

    From our archives: the Shrine of St Barbara

    Despite the violent nature of the particle collisions that take place inside the CMS detector, the cathedral-sized cavern in which it sits thirty storeys underground exudes a certain peaceful calm.

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  • Technical Design Report for Level-1 Trigger Upgrade Published

    Technical Design Report for Level-1 Trigger Upgrade Published

    CMS is in many ways a living entity, undergoing change from time to time, with components being replaced or upgraded as their ability to handle the LHC’s collisions reduces.

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  • Removal of a section of the CMS Beam Pipe

    Removal of a section of the CMS Beam Pipe

    Over recent weeks, members of the TE-VSC group have been removing seven components of the beam pipe located at the heart of the CMS detector.

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  • Questionaire about possible panel discussion for US industry job market

    Dear Colleagues, During the May CMS week, we had a very successful panel discussion featuring CMS Alumni who are now employed outside of high energy physics.

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  • CMS, Michel Della Negra and Jim Virdee among winners of 2013 EPS Prize

    CMS, Michel Della Negra and Jim Virdee among winners of 2013 EPS Prize

    The EPS High Energy Physics Division announces the winners of its 2013 prizes, which will be awarded at the Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2013), Stockholm (Sweden) 18-24 July 2013 (http://eps-hep2013.eu/): The 2013 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, for an outstanding contribution to High Energy Physics, is awarded to the ATLAS and CMS…

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