Tag: HiLumi
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The CMS Pixel detector was extracted after 10 years of successful operations
The core of the CMS experiment, the tracker pixel detector, has been removed after a decade of successful operation.
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CMS Muon Cathode Strip Chambers – out today, back for the future
How do you install new, additional components in an already compact machine?
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Handling Supermodules for Hi-Lumi CMS: How the ECAL team tested their Enfourneurs
The Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) group has tested the second enfourneur (pictured above), a highly specialized instrument that allows the insertion and extraction of key components of the CMS detector at CERN, the ECAL ‘supermodules’.
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Load Testing over 365 Tonnes on ‘Spindles’ in Preparation for Hi-Lumi CMS
CMS successfully carried out key tests for the lifting system needed in the construction of Hi Lumi CMS during the end of year stop 2025/2026. Four thin legs emerge from the floor of the CMS cavern to lift incredibly heavy parts of the CMS detector.
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The supporting structure of the new CMS HGCAL detector has arrived at CERN for assembly
After an eight-week journey, the first HGCAL absorber structure (CE-H1) was delivered to CERN and is ready to be assembled, just 100 metres above where the detector will eventually be located.
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CMS completes a new DAQ Server room in preparation for Hi-Lumi
The increase in data processing capabilities means that CMS is one step closer to being ready for Run 4. The new Data Acquisition (DAQ) room is a state-of-the-art server room, essential for the Hi-Lumi phase of the detector and beyond.
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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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First Tracker Support Structures, TBPS Rings, in production for Hi-Lumi CMS!
The TBPS Rings are in production, offering an innovative design to incline sensors toward the LHC beam and maximise coverage.
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Hi-Lumi iRPC Muon chambers installed in CMS in record time!
The first of the improved Resistive Plate Chambers for Hi-Lumi CMS were installed in record time during the LHC winter break.
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What does 2025 hold for CMS?
2024 was an impressive year: the most data ever collected by CMS, many important results including two landmark results (W boson mass and top entanglement), milestone for the upcoming Hi-Lumi CMS detector reached, and ever more innovations pushing the frontiers of how we explore physics.