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On 17th and 18th July CMS held its first "Induction Course for Newcomers".

Marco Peruzzi (Institute for Particle Physics, ETH Zurich) has been awarded the CHIPP Prize 2014 for the best PhD student in experimental or theoretical particle physics in Switzerland by the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics, "for his original contribution to the development of novel topologic

Among the leading candidates to describe physics beyond the standard model of particle physics is Supersymmetry, a new symmetry that posits the existence of a partner particle for each known particle in the standard model.

CMS news since the last newsletter of June 13:
CMS closes major chapter of Higgs measurements

The year 2013 was a special year for the CMS PhD Thesis Award programme as Awards were presented to the authors of three outstanding PhD theses. In the wrap-up session of the CMS week on June 27, Awards were presented to Drs. Lorenzo Bianchini, Joern Lange, and Giovanni Petrucciani.

Between 17th and 19th June, the picturesque and historic Italian city of Trieste played host to a gathering of about 40 members of the CMS ECAL Group for the first "ECAL Days" outside of CERN since the LHC startup.

The data reveal that the particle discovered at CERN continues to behave just like the Standard Model predicts

At its meeting on June 19, CERN Council authorised CERN management to finalise discussions with Pakistan for Associate Membership of CERN. This is the final stretch towards a major milestone for CERN: Pakistan would be the first Asian country to become an Associate Member of the organization.

CMS news since the last newsletter of May 19:

During Long Shutdown 1 (LS1), that started in 2013, both the forward Pixel (FPix) and the barrel Pixel (BPix) detectors were extracted from inside CMS for maintenance, in order to recover the broken channels.