Tag: cosmic rays
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Cosmic Rays, splashes and test collisions: CMS has seen them all!
As the end of Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) is getting closer, CERN along with the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is preparing to welcome the most awaited Run 3 next year.
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A Summer Of Cosmic Rays for CMS
The focus of Run Coordination during Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) is to organize regular detector-commissioning periods which help to closely monitor the advance of maintenance and upgrade activities, to smooth interactions between subsystems.
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CMS is never idle
CMS is eager to see the first collisions of the LHC Run2. The recent news that the LHC restart may be delayed because of a hardware issue gives us extra time to prepare for those collisions.
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Asymmetric collisions: smashing protons into lead nuclei
Our best understanding of the early Universe tells us that a dense medium, known as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), existed in the first microseconds after the big bang.
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Resuming Cosmic runs with the Tracker – Animations
After further maintenance work on the detector here a few event display animations (make sure your Browser settings allow image animations and click on each image to animate them!).
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Resuming Cosmic runs with the Tracker
After further maintenance work on the detector here are 4 new cosmic events from run 119013
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Cosmic tracks in 2.4T magnetic field.
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Triggered cosmic ray tracks.
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First triggered cosmic ray tracks seen in the Tracker during commissioning, from Christoph Delaere.