Research Program Office/Management

Mission

Objectives and Organization of the CMS Research Program

The mission of the US CMS Research Program is to realize the US investment in the construction of CMS by providing the resources to allow US collaborators on CMS to fully participate in the commissioning, operation, and maintenance of the experiment and in the analysis of the data and elucidation of the physics at this new energy frontier. The program also supports the research and development activities needed to upgrade the detector to operate at luminosities as high as 10³⁵ cm^-2 s^-1.

To achieve these objectives, the Program consists of two major components – Detector and Maintenance and Operations and Software and Computing. In addition, a Program Office provides overall management and support for activities that span these two major divisions.