Tag: Pixel
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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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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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CMS’ High Luminosity tracker chip is ready!
The first wafers of the CMS Read Out Chip (CROC) for the High Luminosity Pixel detector have been produced and tested, marking a major milestone for the next generation CMS Tracker.
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CMS Pixel Tracker installation
After more than two years with lots of delicate work the Pixel Tracker has been successfully installed at the centre of the CMS detector and it is now ready for commissioning.
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Preparations for an upgrade of the heart of CMS
The CMS detector is going through multiple maintenance works during the LHC Long Shutdown 2 (LS2), the first year of which is approaching its end.
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Long shutdown 2 at CMS in full swing: Pixel detector extraction
After the LHC was shut down at the end of 2018, one might think that physicists working in the large experiments can sit back and relax.
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Reconstructing a multitude of particle tracks within CMS
The LHC circulates protons inside its beam-pipes not in a continuous stream but in several very closely packed bunches.
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Tracker back into operation
A series of important milestones have been passed during the last 3 months.
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CMS forward pixels: better than ever
In July of last year we successfully inserted the pixel detector inside CMS and successfully integrated and operated it with the rest of the CMS detector during the CRAFT run.
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Forward Pixels Detectors reinstalled
The last two weeks the Forward Pixels (FPIX) detectors were both reinstalled and successfully tested.