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CMS Internal Newsletter, Apri 17, 2014

CMS news from the past two weeks:

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Installation and commissioning of the ME4/2 Cathode Strip Chamber

Front-layer CSC installation on YE+3 using chamber lifting fixture (in yellow) and overhead crane. CSC personnel is shown at the top (on cherry-picker) and the bottom.

Since March this year new layers of Muon chambers have been added to CMS on both YE3 endcap disks.

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Update from Physics Coordination (2014-04-17)

We have had three important events on the “Higgs front” in the past few days:
⁃ Our H→ττ paper (HIG-13-004) is now accepted for publication by JHEP

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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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Are there quantum black holes that evaporate instantly?

The CMS experiment utilises cutting-edge machine learning techniques to search for microscopic, quantum black holes and other exotic objects that evaporate in an instant.

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CMS gets acquainted with a family of all-charm tetraquarks

Upon close inspection, the tetraquark family members are consistent with tightly bound diquark pairs

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CMS Scientist wins SIF 2025 Award for Science Communication - Through Comics!

Luigi Marchese wins the prestigious SIF 2025 award for Science Communication, recognising his work on disseminating physics through comic books from the Societa’ Italiana di Fisica “Italian Physics Society”, or SIF.