Category: Detector
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Resistive Plate Chambers are getting dolled up
After the LHC was shut down in December 2018 following the successful completion of RUN 2 operation, CMS is undergoing an intensive upgrade and maintenance program during the current two-year break (“Long Shutdown 2” or LS2) in order to ensure an excellent performance of the detector in the subsequent physics program.
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CMS tightens its net around muons
During LS2, CMS will install 144 additional muon detector modules specially designed to detect particles produced in the very forward region.
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LHC beam pipe to be mined for monopoles
In February, the CMS and MoEDAL collaborations at CERN signed an agreement to hand over to MoEDAL a section of the LHC beam pipe that was located inside CMS between 2008 and 2013. The delicate object, 6 metres long and made of beryllium, will now be sliced and fed into a highly precise magnetic sensors…
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CMS technology used to develop a new portable muon telescope
Suppose that you need to see what is inside a small room that is difficult to access.
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CMS beam pipe replacement has started
The CMS detector is built from several different layers, surrounding the beam pipe in which the LHC beams collide.
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Long shutdown 2 at CMS in full swing: Pixel detector extraction
After the LHC was shut down at the end of 2018, one might think that physicists working in the large experiments can sit back and relax.
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CMS enters a busy period of detector upgrades
A successful four years of CMS detector operation came to an end last week and now we are beginning a new chapter.
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The 2018 heavy-ion collision run has started
We are nearing the end of the year and LHC started colliding another species of particles than protons: the nuclei of heavy atoms.
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Technology used for 3D colour X-ray helps to monitor radiation at CMS
When the Large Hadron Collider is in operation, the cavern containing the CMS detector is an extremely inhospitable place, due to the high-energy radiation produced by the collisions.