CERN’s surveyors conduct diverse measurements to ensure, for example, accurate positioning of magnets, detectors and other equipment. They do so using techniques such as laser tracking and 3D scanning.
Two new wheels of the Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) of the muon system are being installed during the LHC’s first Long Shutdown (LS1).
The past two weeks have seen several pivotal steps taken towards achieving some of the key goals for CMS during the LHC’s first Long Shutdown (LS1).
Repairs needed to be performed on a region consisting of 75 channels in the positive ECAL endcap, which had been inoperable since 2009.
Early in the morning on 22 October, I grabbed my laptop and safety helmet and took the elevator 30 storeys underground to the CMS experimental cavern.
Dear CMS Alumni, students, and postdocs,
CMS is taking its first steps in making up to half of its data accessible to the public, in accordance with its policy for data preservation, re-use and open access.
As you know, we have to elect the CMS CB Chairperson for the term July 2014 - Dec. 2016.
The election will take place during two special Collaboration Board meetings, held during the December CMS week:
on Tuesday December 10th evening: discussion with the candidates
Special mention to ATLAS and CMS experiments for confirming existence of the BEH mechanism by discovering a Higgs boson
One otherwise unremarkable day, the meeting of the CMS group at the University of Minnesota Physics Department took an unexpected, yet not entirely uncommon, detour to the pages of the web.