Dr. Sudhir Malik
Fermilab/ University of Nebraska
Thursday, December 2, 10:30 AM Room: F-436
“The first six months of data taking of the CMS experiment at LHC"
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Detector at the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) had been under construction and commissioning phase
for the last 10 years and begun taking proton-proton collision data
beginning this year.
CMS is a general-purpose detector and is designed to see a wide
range of particles and phenomena produced in the LHC collisions. It
involves an international collaboration of approximately 3,000 people
from more than 80 countries.
The main physics goal of the detector is to search for new phenomena
including the Higgs boson, supersymmetry, and extra dimensions. It will
also measure the properties of previously-discovered quarks and
bosons with unprecedented precision, and be on the lookout for
completely new, unpredicted phenomena.
In less than six months of data taking we have collected ~ 50 pb-1,
and have re-discovered the standard model particles. This is an
indicator of the excellent performance of the detector and its
potential. In this talk I will give and overview of this detector and
the physics achievements so far.