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.
In the past few weeks the physics groups have concentrated their activities on wrapping up the new results for the LHCP conference (June 2nd-7th) and preparing for ICHEP (July 2nd-6th).
The new Building SL53 on CERN’s Cessy site in France is ready to welcome the thousands of visitors (30,000 in 2013) who come to learn about CMS each year.
The goals of the Phase II Technical Proposal (TP) are to describe the detector conceptual designs; present a plan for completion of necessary R&D; present preliminary production costs as well as an organization plan; and demonstrate the need for a Phase II upgrade using the physics reach and
CMS news from the past two weeks:
In the last two weeks the approvals activity continued to increase heading to QM2014 and LHCP conferences.
On May 4th the RPC subproject successfully completed the installation of the RE4 upgrade detector.
CMS news from the past two weeks:
The April Global Run (AGR), the first commissioning run in 2014, took place 7-11 April.
Since the Easter break the activity in the Physics Coordination area has steadily increased on fronts.
The approaching of Summer Conferences is reflected in an increased rate of approvals.