The April Global Run (AGR) took place last week, Monday-Friday 7-11 April. This being the first run since November 2013, the last run using the Run-1 DAQ, and the last run just before an extended cooling maintenance at P5, we embarked on the week with an ambitious plan of work.
As reported previously (ECAL Preshower removed from detector for repairs), both Preshower (ES) endcaps were removed temporarily from CMS and moved to the SX5 building at the end of 2013.
The Trigger Studies Group (TSG) had its first workshop of 2014 in LAPP Annecy, on Mon-Wed Apr 7-9.
CMS news from the past two weeks:
After the wave of new and exciting results presented at the Winter conferences, the physics object and analysis groups are now focusing on the preparation of the CSA14 readiness test.
The CB Chair team is pleased to issue the second newsletter of the year.
Draft minutes of the last CB meeting at CERN (28 Feb. 2014) are here.
The spring joint offline and computing week was held at CERN March 25-28 (the full agenda can be found in Indico). The main theme of the week was the readiness of the CMS computing infrastructure and the CMSSW software for the 2015 startup.
During the week of March 19, the CMS endcap muon upgrade passed a major milestone, with the completion of the certification of the final 36 Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC) for reinstallation on the CMS detector.
CMS has improved the constraints on the Higgs width, a fundamental property of this unique new particle, by more than two orders of magnitude.