Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will increase the energies of the bunches of subatomic particles called protons that it smashes together.
Today, operators of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator announced their plan for the 2012 run.
This week the CMS collaboration will publish the results of its search for the Higgs boson that were presented at CERN in December 2011 [1].
CMS is organizing a Workshop entitled Perspectives on Physics and on CMS at Very High Luminosity, HL-LHC which will take place in the Ukrainian city of Alushta in the Crimea, 28-31 May, 2012. JINR (Dubna) will serve as a host.
Dear CMS collaborator,
The Technical Coordination team is organizing an evacuation exercise of the CMS underground caverns (USC55 and UXC55) on Friday the 3rd of February from 14:00.
“If you remember, Mark Twain once said, ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ If you use statistics in an improper way, you could get pretty much any result,” says Greg Landsberg, CMS’s new physics coordinator.
On 10th January, a delegation from Serbia, led by President Boris Tadic, arrived at CERN to sign the agreement that would grant Serbia associate membership to CERN, as a step towards full membership.
The official CMS calendar is now available in a variety of new formats:
Rolf Heuer, the Director General of CERN, welcomed back CERN personnel and users after the holiday period, at the annual New Year’s presentation held on 11th January.
An evacuation exercise of the USC55 and UXC55 caverns will be organized on the 3rd of February 2012 around 2 pm, we need volunteers to help and to participate. Please contact nduponts@cern.ch if you are interested. Thanks !