CERN Accelerating science

The CMS Letter of Intent was completed 20 years ago this month.

You may view it or subscribe to it in a variety of ways, as well as to a number of sub-group calendars (Run Coordination, Upgrades, Publications, etc.), as follows:

The LHC circulates protons inside its beam-pipes not in a continuous stream but in several very closely packed bunches.

The magnet worked properly until it suffered two unexpected stops in August due to technical problems on the service infrastructure.

Here is a delightful poem written by Erich Harth, an Emeritus Professor from Syracuse University, in the wake of the discovery announcement from CMS and ATLAS.

The July 4th 2012 announcement was widely covered by press. For a small selection of some of the main stories see:

I have been a physicist working for CMS for about ten years now, and a guitarist for about twice as long. From time to time I have tried to somehow marry these two worlds, and when I became interested in guitar building I realised that I need to build a “CMS guitar”.

Every year CERN opens its doors to hundreds of high-school students who wish to get an in-depth look at what it is like to be a scientist or engineer at one of the world’s most prestigious research laboratories.

The Quark Matter 2012 conference, held in Washington DC from 13-18 August 2012, brings together experimental and theoretical experts in the area of heavy-ion physics.

CMS has just passed another major milestone, recording more than 10 inverse femtobarns of data at 8 TeV.

Despite higher pile-up creating more complicated events, CMS improved its running efficiency and now regularly achieves efficiencies in excess of 95, 97 or even 98% each day.