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U.S. CMS OVERVIEW
The CMS experiment is designed to study the collisions
of protons at a center of mass energy of 14 TeV. The physics
program includes the study of electroweak symmetry breaking,
investigating the properties of the top quark, a search for new
heavy guage bosons, probing quark and lepton substructure, looking
for supersymmetry and exploring other new phenomena.
The USCMS Collaboration consists of various US
unversities and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL).
The Collaboration works closely with the CMS Collaboration at
CERN to accomplish the missions of the experiment. Major funding
of this program is provided by The US Department of Energy (DOE)
and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The program consists of three sometimes intersecting
subgroups:
Software and Computing (U.S.
CMS S&C) executes USCMS responsibilities for developing
the enhanced software for CMS physics applications and establishing
user facilities and infrastructure for physics computing.
Construction,
Maintenance and Operation (Construction / M&O) executes
US responsibilities for the construction, maintenance and operation
of the CMS detector.
Physics Analysis (LPC) will simulate and conduct
physics analysis using the CMS detector.
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