A probe station for testing silicon sensors. CMS will use silicon sensors for building prototypes of a highly granular sandwich calorimeter, the CMS HGC (High Granular Calorimeter) upgrade for High-Luminosity LHC. (Credit: N. Caraban Gonzalez)
70% of all your sensory receptors are in your eyes. 50% of our brain is involved in visual processing.*
Patatrack Hackathon's group, 7th edition. Picture credit: Felice Pantaleo
Guest post by Nadezda Chernyavskaya - ETH Zurich
Bavarian Evening at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings - Picture Credit: Christian Flemming
Les Atomes Dansants at CMS experimental site
Many philosophers thought that the Desire is the driving force of the world, on both microscopic and macroscopic scales. The same Desire that moves scientists in their demanding and endless quest after knowledge.
Guest post by Daniela Brill Estrada
Lukas Heinrich presenting the keynote. In the background, you can see the Higgs boson mass peak emerge from the background in simulation and data as the jobs running in the cloud are completing.
Guest post by James Gillies
Left to right: James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski, Dan Schreiber and Andrew Hunter Murray, collectively the QI Elves, pose for selfies at CMS. Their guide, CMS physicist Dave Barney, is on the far left.
On Friday 31 May, some of the writing team behind the cult UK TV panel show, QI, visited CERN to find inspiration before a live show in Geneva that night.
Guest post by Andrea Massironi and Shervin Nourbakhsh
CMS has just completed four years of data collection. During this period, all groups within the CMS collaboration contributed to the operation of the detector.
By Vitória Barin Pacela
By Joshua Beirer
As a physicist in my early career, I felt incredibly happy when I was informed last March that I was selected as a future participant of the highly selective and renowned Summer Student Programme at CERN. At that time, I already had worked within the ATLAS Collaboration for the scope of my Bachelor’s thesis, but I had never actually worked in situ.
