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

7 May 2008
Fermilab Today
Register now for U.S. CMS 2008 Run Plan Workshop
"All members of the U.S. CMS collaboration who plan to participate in data taking and analysis at the Large Hadron Collider this year should register now for the U.S. CMS 2008 Run Plan Workshop. The LHC Physics Center at Fermilab will host the workshop on May 15 and 16, providing one last opportunity for U.S. CMS to synchronize its analysis plan with the overall CMS collaboration."
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6 May 2008
Fermilab Today
More bloggers to write about U.S. LHC efforts
"Excitement has permeated the Internet, as well as CERN, as the LHC heads toward a startup this summer. On the U.S. LHC Web site this week, six new scientists have joined the U.S. LHC blogs to expand and enhance coverage of the LHC project and U.S. participation in it."
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Meet the U.S. CMS bloggers:
Freya Blekman
Ken Bloom
Pam Klabbers
Steve Nahn

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