From the desk of the CB Chairperson

We have been receiving quite a few emails asking when the CB Newsletter would reappear. Finally we are resuming service. There have been CB meetings in DESY and CERN as well as in Taipei since our last newsletter. We have chosen a few highlights below ahead of the CB meeting during this Upgrade Week.

Draft minutes of the last CB meeting in Taipei (September 13) are here.

We are keen to hear from you. Please contact us at any time at cms-cbchairteam@cern.ch, or by stopping by the CB Office: 40-2-B28. On Skype we are: ian.shipsey, claudia-elisabeth.wulz and jorgen.dhondt

Selected key issues passed at the July and September CMS Weeks

• Approval of Deputy Spokespersons and L1 Coordinators, POG and PAG conveners (except EXO)
• Approval of the proposal for the organization of the Upgrades
• Publication plan for physics analyses
• Procedure for the approval of Future Physics projections/analyses
• Procedures for joint TOTEM/CMS publications
• Recognition of the physics motivation and detector concepts for the Proton Precision Spectrometer (PPS) as an important component of the CMS physics programme
• Procedure for the transition to a new CB Chair (I. Shipsey stays CB Chair till end of 2013, C.-E. Wulz will act as CB Chair Jan. – June 2014; election of a new CB Chair will take place during the December CMS Week)
• Changes to Annex 5 of the Constitution (Rules governing the Conference Committee)
• Approval of the application of the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, to join CMS

Meeting of the CB (#92) on Friday, 25 October at 13:00 in the Filtration Plant

The session will be webcast to CMS in parallel with the usual dedicated, password-protected Vidyo link for CB Institutional Representatives. This will allow everyone to watch the meeting. Some of the items on the agenda:

• Approval or taking note of nominations for management positions
• Change of the start terms of offices from January to September and reducing the duration of the overlap of the SP and SP elect
• Introducing an option to broaden the electorate for the SP election
• Election of a new chairperson of the Conference Committee
• Publication rules for CMS theses
• Guidelines for publications by individual CMS members of review papers, interpretation papers, and papers on analysis methods or search strategies based on generic simulations and/or CMS published results
• There will also be a talk by Ariane Koek about the Collide@CERN art programme

Theorists in CMS

The CB recently formed the CMS Theorist Group to study how to improve interactions between CMS and the broad international community of particle theorists interested in LHC physics and the basic theory questions that LHC results may elucidate, and to optimize the fantastic opportunity of having theorists and experimentalists side-by-side as members of CMS.

Co-chaired by Hannes Jung and Joe Lykken, this group is busy discussing a variety of possible initiatives, and polling a wide variety of theorists for their views and suggestions.

CMS is working to improve communications with theorists

CMS Theorist Group co-Chairs Hannes Jung (left) and Joe Lykken (right)

Anatomy of the CB

Theorists in CMS is one of the many groups and committees of the CB. These two organigrams show the committees and groups of the CB:

Collider: step inside the world’s greatest experiment, 
13 November 2013 – 6 May 2014

If you are fortunate enough to be in London between November and May the Science Museum is hosting an exhibition on the Large Hadron Collider experiments and the Higgs discovery.

There are many fascinating displays including a life size image of part of the CMS detector based on the iconic photo by Maximilien Brice and Michael Hoch that also forms the poster in B40. (Similar images can also be seen at the Deutsches Museum Bonn, Dublin, Barcelona and Aachen RWTH.) In connection with the London exhibition the Science Museum has produced some rather fetching umbrellas capturing an image that may look familiar to you. At this time of year umbrellas are especially useful, if you would like to own one like that in the photo and are not going to be in London, the umbrella will be available in the CMS store and the CERN shop.

The CMS Umbrella produced by the Science Museum, London

CMS is beautiful

We close this newsletter with another beautiful image from Point 5.

Working areas accessible on the CMS minus side LS1 October 2013. View from below YE1−, in the background YB2 and YB1.