Tag: CMS
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Data Quality Monitoring: An important step towards new physics
Data Quality Monitoring: An important step towards new physics Data Quality Monitoring (DQM) is an important aspect of every high-energy physics experiment. In the era of LHC, when the detectors are extremely sophisticated devices, an online feedback on the quality of the data recorded is needed to avoid taking low quality data and to guarantee
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LHC experiment release data in CERN’s Open Data Portal
LHC experiment release data in CERN's Open Data Portal On 20 November 2014, CERN launched the Open Data Portal, making data from real collision events at the LHC experiments available for the first time to the general public. This project is part of the Organisation's policy of openness, which is enshrined in its founding convention
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EPS announces the 2015 prizes in the field of high energy physics.
EPS announces the 2015 prizes in the field of high energy physics. Last month, the High Energy and Particle Physics division of the European Physical Society announced the 2015 prizes for outstanding contributions in the field of high energy physics. The 2015 Young Experimental Physicist Prize was awarded to Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus and Giovanni Petrucciani,
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The new CMS Timing and Control Distribution System
The new CMS Timing and Control Distribution System It is of paramount importance that all parts of an LHC experiment are synchronized to each other and to the passage of particles in the centre of the experiment. The original CMS Timing, Trigger, and Control (TTC) system made this possible during the first period of data-taking
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LHC experiments back in business at record energy
LHC experiments back in business at record energy BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/lhc-experiments-back-business-record-energy) The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started delivering physics data on 3rd of June for the first time in 27 months. After an almost two year shutdown and several months re-commissioning, the LHC is now providing collisions to all of
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Focus on the Run Coordinators of the LHC Experiments
Focus on the Run Coordinators of the LHC Experiments As the preparations for Run2 are coming to an end, and the first collisions are scheduled to take place in a few weeks, the control rooms of the LHC experiments have become hives of activity, getting ready to record the first data. Run Coordinators are responsible
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Greg Rakness: CMS co-Run Coordinator
Greg Rakness: CMS co-Run Coordinator The CMS Run Coordination team is made up of three people: Christoph Schwick and myself as co-Run Coordinators and Silvia Goy Lopez as coordinator of the Detector Performance Groups. Together we manage the commissioning and operation of the CMS detector with the overarching goal to deliver physics quality data efficiently
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CMS: LS1 – A Short Summary and an Outlook to the Endgame
CMS: LS1 – A Short Summary and an Outlook to the Endgame After almost two years of shutdown, all planned upgrades of CMS have been performed. The endcap muon system now has a complete forth layer with additional Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC) and Restive Plate Chambers (RPC), enclosed by two new 120t shielding disks made
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CMS tests new Resistive Plate Chambers
CMS tests new Resistive Plate Chambers With the increase of the LHC luminosity foreseen in the coming years many detectors currently used in the different LHC experiments will be dramatically impacted and some will have to be replaced. The new ones should be capable not only to support the high particle rate but also to
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RD53: Development of pixel readout integrated circuits for extreme rate and radiation.
RD53: Development of pixel readout integrated circuits for extreme rate and radiation. In June 2013 the LHCC has endorsed the establishment of a new R&D collaboration, RD53, to address the challenges of making readout integrated circuits for the phase 2 pixel detector upgrades of ATLAS and CMS, as well as long term developments of interest