CMS

The Compact Muon Solenoid experiment (CMS) is one of the two "general purpose" detectors situated on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Occupying a cathedral-sized cavern under the ground near Cessy, France, and weighing in at around 12,500 tonnes, it has been designed to probe the smallest constituents of matter in an effort to understand some of the most profound questions we can ask of Nature. Imperial College physicists were heavily involved in the design and construction of CMS, and continue to play a leading role as the 3,300-strong CMS Collaboration extracts results from the LHC's countless particle collisions.

Imperial contribution

The Imperial College HEP group contributes to the CMS experiment in three major
areas:

• The detector: the equipment with which we make the measurements;
• Computing: processing, storing and managing the measurement data, as well as generating simulated data to aid the analysis of our results;
• Physics: interpreting the data to gain a deeper understanding of Nature.

People involved

Group members: Sulayman Awan, Robert Bainbridge, Daniela Bauer, Raymond Beuselinck, Philippe Bloch, Oliver Buchmuller, Montoya Camilo Andres Carrillo, David Colling, Arianna Cox, Paul Dauncey, Gavin Davies, Albert De Roeck, Michel Della Negra, Simon Fayer, Giacomo Fedi, Geoffrey Hall, Ye He, Hafeez R. Hoorani, Alexander Howard, Gregory Iles, Weijie Jin, Paul Krueper, Lauri Laatu, Jonathon Langford, Kai Hong Law, Louis Lyons, Anne-Marie Magnan, Benedikt Maier, Stavros Mallios, Max Marriott-Clarke, Andreas Mastronikolis, Mikael Mieskolainen, Jordan Nash, Mark Pesaresi, Prijith Babu Pradeep, Ekaterini Veroe Protopapa, Benjamin Charles Radburn-Smith, Duncan Rand, Alexander Richards, Andrew Rose, Thomas Benjamin Runting, Lucas Russell, Ryan Schmitz, Christopher Seez, Raghunandan Shukla, Alexander Tapper, Thomas Travis, Kirika Uchida, George Peter Uttley, Tejinder Virdee, Nicholas Wardle, Dougal Wentworth, Daniel Winterbottom, Jie Xiao