Thursday, November 17, 2011, 16:00
WHGA/001
R. Wallny, ETHZ
Abstract:
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment started collider-mode operation
at the end of 2009, acquiring proton-proton collisions at the unprecedented
center-of-mass energy of up to 7 TeV provided by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
Progress of both the accelerator complex and the experiments during the past two
years has been breathtaking. After a short introduction to the LHC program and the
history of CMS, the talk will describe the veritable tour de force of the experiment
acquiring multi-femtobarn datasets which allow the re-discovery of the Standard Model
and provide a first solid look into Physics beyond the Standard Model and the search
for the long-sought after Higgs boson.