New milestone – 10/fb recorded by CMS in 2012

CMS has just passed another major milestone, recording more than 10 inverse femtobarns of data at 8 TeV.

Despite higher pile-up creating more complicated events, CMS improved its running efficiency and now regularly achieves efficiencies in excess of 95, 97 or even 98% each day.

This is a credit to the expertise of all the dedicated CMS operations groups.

Joe Incandela