Tag: BRIL
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Shiny new luminosity and beam conditions instrumentation for CMS
New BRIL subsystems illuminate CMS’s path through Run 3 After many months of meticulous preparations, new BRIL subsystems were installed in mid-January.
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The Installation of the BRIL Luminometers: Preparing for a bright Run 3
After long months of preparations, the Beam Radiation, Instrumentation, and Luminosity (BRIL) group has completed the installation of three instruments dedicated to the measurement of luminosity and beam conditions: the Beam Condition Monitor “Fast” (BCM1F), the Beam Condition Monitor for Losses (BCM1L), and the Pixel Luminosity Telescope (PLT).
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Illuminating! Counting LHC collisions with CMS
In the LHC, groups of 100 billion protons collide 25 million times every second.
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Planning for years of luminosity measurements with BRIL
When the LHC is sending billions of protons at each other millions of times per second, it’s important to know just how many of them actually are colliding, both so that the LHC can optimize its operations to produce the most collisions possible, and as an important input to nearly any measurement that will be…
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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.