Tag: Tracker
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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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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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The BTST, a key piece of the Upgraded CMS Detector, arrives at CERN
Above: Part of the BTST team during the unboxing of the tube.
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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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Highlights from the annual maintenance of the CMS detector
The Year-End Technical Stop or YETS, when the LHC takes its annual break, seemed like a quiet time to those outside CERN.
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Interview with Christophe Delaere, U. cath. de Louvain
Christophe Delaere, from the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, has been with CMS for five years.