Tag: GEM
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CMS Industry and Partner Gold Awards 2024
The CMS Collaboration is proud to announce the recipients of the 2024 Industry and Partner Awards, which recognise the vital contributions of our partners in advancing the experiment’s capabilities.
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Demonstrating the capabilities of a new GEM
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been providing particle collisions at larger and larger luminosities over the years, thanks to a series of upgrades.
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First GEM station (GE11) installed in CMS
Despite the rather challenging circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CMS GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier) team has been working against all odds to complete the installation of the very first GEM station (GE1/1) in CMS.
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CMS GEMs Shine On!
Since late May, with the incremental re-opening of CERN’s facilities, members of the CMS GEM project have been hard at work restarting the laboratory activities in preparation for the continued efforts towards the GE1/1 chambers installation.
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CMS Continues to Shine with New GEMs
On July 25th, 2019, the very first GEM superchambers were installed into the CMS YE- endcap as part of the newest CMS muon subsystem, GE1/1. And while this was a fantastic accomplishment worth celebrating, it was only the beginning of the story.
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The start of something new
The CMS Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) subsystem will form an extra layer of detectors, along with the Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC) layers, closest to the beam.
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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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An inspiring summer: from the diary of a CERN intern
By Siddharth Sehgal For two weeks this summer, as an intern at CERN, I had a wonderful exposure to the exciting and challenging world of particle physics under the supervision of Archana Sharma, a senior particle physicist at CERN.