Building 40 at CERN’s Meyrin site was abuzz with excitement as CMS formally inaugurated an art installation featuring a full-size high-resolution photograph of the CMS detector organised by the CMS Communications Group. The unveiling was met with…

Read the paper: QCD-10-037 The measured Drell-Yan production rates, normalised to the production rates in the Z-boson region, show good agreement with the theoretical predictions. The Drell-Yan process occurs when a quark from one of the colliding…

Read the paper: BPH-11-002 The observed numbers of events in both decay modes are consistent with those expected in the Standard Model. Upper limits on the branching fraction have been determined at 90% and 95% confidence levels (CL). The Standard…

This is a collaborative wiki where people write scrappers that can be re-used to trawl the internet or a specific website automatically and find data relating to a particular topic. For instance there is a scrapper that looks through twitter for…

I came across this interesting visualisation of the current US debt, and I think something similar could be used by CMS to show the amount of data collected and analysed over time, rather than just a graph. It could also work very well with Tom's…

Came across this excellent infographic and I thought I'd share it with the rest of you: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/the-internet-of-things-infographic/

A number of EPS talks will be previewed centrally on Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 of July. The schedule for these previews can be found on https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=147431 The room is 40-5-A01 for all previews. The EVO…

Piazza is an online forum for ask and answer questions. Users ask a question that is then answered by other users and/or identified experts. There is only one space for each answer and answers are edited wiki-style, with versioning - so the forum…

The self-rescue mask training course (biocell training) is now mandatory for accessing the USC55 cavern. Register now !

The PAS of EXO-10-022 "Search for New Ditau Resonances in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV" is now public. You find it on CDS at http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1367127?ln=en Congratulations to all involved. Best regards, Roberto Tenchini and Gigi…

The PAS of EXO-11-005 "Search for T/t' decays to tZ in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV" is now public. You can find it on CDS at http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1367130?ln=en Congratulations to all involved. Best regards, Roberto Tenchini and Gigi…

The PAS of BTV-11-001 "b-tagging performance (efficiency and mistag rate) measurements from CMS" is now public. You find it on CDS at http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1366061?ln=en Congratulations to all involved. Best regards, Roberto Tenchini and Gigi…