Category: Collaboration
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Goodbye 2021, Welcome 2022!
Before saying goodbye to 2021, we’re proud to look back at major milestones reached by CMS collaboration both on physics results and detector upgrades along the year.
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First CMS open data from LHC Run 2 released
As the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) brace for the start of Run 3 of the accelerator’s programme in 2022, the CMS collaboration has released a new batch of research-quality open data recorded by the CMS detector in 2015, the first year of Run 2. The new datasets are now available on the…
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Adrenaline rush at LHC Point 5
CERN’s most ambitious emergency response exercise to date took place on 13 November at LHC Point 5, with the involvement of French, Swiss and CERNois safety and rescue teams It is a peaceful Saturday morning in Cessy, France.
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CMS Young Researchers 2021
Congratulations to Andrew Gilbert, Marco Luccini and Meng Xiao for winning the CMS Young Researchers Prize for 2021!
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CMS Thesis Award Winners 2020
The awardees of the 2020 CMS Thesis Award are Matteo Defranchis, Cristina Martin Perez and Thorben Quast!
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Two CMS members won the DOE Early Career Researcher Grants
CMS members Phil Harris and Indara Suarez have been awarded with the US Department of Energy (DOE) Early-Career Researcher Grant!
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CMS Physicist Tejinder Virdee receives the Blaise Pascal Medal for Physics of the European Academy of Sciences
At a virtual ceremony, held on the 21st of May 2021, the European Academy of Sciences presented its 2020 Blaise Pascal Medal for Physics to our former Spokesperson Tejinder Virdee.
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Congratulations Geoff Hall for Royal Society Fellowship
Professor Geoff Hall from Imperial London College has been elected for the prestigious fellowship granted by the Royal Society.
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New CMS Collaboration Board Chair
The CMS Collaboration Board has elected Dr. Claudia-Elisabeth Wulz as the next CMS Collaboration Board Chair following Prof. Harrison Prosper’s mandate which ends on the 31st of August 2021. The Collaboration Board is the governing body of the experiment.
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Hadron Calorimeter Next-Generation Clock Control Module Rework
Around the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 lockdown in Switzerland, physicists and engineers working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment closed the case on an elusive problem affecting the operation of the Hadron Calorimeter (HCAL) detector.