U.S. CMS

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Discoveries from the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, promise to revolutionize our understanding of the universe. More than 900 scientists from 48 institutions in the U.S. participate in the U.S. CMS collaboration, supported by the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation.

View from the CMS collision hall. (Courtesy Michael Hoch, Adventure Art)

U.S. CMS consists of more than 400 physicists, 200 graduate students and 200 engineers, technicians and computer scientists, making it the largest national group in the international collaboration. The U.S. collaboration is making significant contributions to nearly every aspect of the detector throughout all phases, including construction, installation and preparation for data-taking. U.S. CMS also plays a major role in the construction and operation of the experiment’s computing facilities and software that will be needed to analyze the unprecedented amount of data that CMS will generate. These highly sophisticated computing tools will allow physicists to operate the CMS detector, reconstruct the data, analyze it and, ultimately, make discoveries.

U.S. CMS News

11 August 2008
New York Times
A Hubble Anniversary and a Successful Collider Test
"....Meanwhile, 300 feet below ground outside Geneva, the world’s largest and most costly physics experiment took another step toward a birth of its own. Scientists and engineers at CERN fired the first beam of protons into the lab’s long-awaited Large Hadron Collider and sent them successfully part way around the collider’s 17-mile racetrack. "
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11 August 2008
UPI
U.S. center will analyze some LHC data
"U.S. physicists say they are preparing to handle some of the flood of data expected from the world's next-generation particle accelerator in Europe. University of Nebraska-Lincoln particle physicists Ken Bloom and Aaron Dominguez have teamed with computer scientist David Swanson to build a computing center that will manage some of the flood of information to be produced by the Large Hadron Collider, located near Geneva, Switzerland. "
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8 August 2008
Fermilab Media Advisory
Watch Start-Up of Large Hadron Collider Live at Fermilab!
"Journalists and guests are invited to witness the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider live and in real time at the LHC Remote Operations Center at the Department of Energy's Fermilab, in Batavia, Illinois in the early morning hours of Wednesday, September 10."
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