Welcome
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.
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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
14 January 2009
iSGTW
Tier-3 computing centers expand options for physicists
14 January 2009
New York Times
A new kind of big science
12 January 2009
symmetry breaking
New CERN director-general speaks to staff
6 January 2009
Fermilab Today
CMS detector completes cosmic practice runs
5 January 2009
Wired News
Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2008
16 December 2008
Fermilab Today
The doctor is in
8 December 2008
Caltech Press Release
High Energy Physics Team Sets New Data-Transfer World Records