The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC

Journal of Instrumentation 3:8 (2008)

Authors:

S Chatrchyan, G Hmayakyan, V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, W Adam, T Bauer, T Bergauer, H Bergauer, M Dragicevic, J Erö, M Friedl, R Frühwirth, VM Ghete, P Glaser, C Hartl, N Hoermann, J Hrubec, S Hänsel, M Jeitler, K Kastner, M Krammer, I Magrans de Abril, M Markytan, I Mikulec, B Neuherz, T Nöbauer, M Oberegger, M Padrta, M Pernicka, P Porth, H Rohringer, S Schmid, T Schreiner, R Stark, H Steininger, J Strauss, A Taurok, D Uhl, W Waltenberger, G Walzel, E Widl, CE Wulz, V Petrov, V Prosolovich, V Chekhovsky, O Dvornikov, I Emeliantchik, A Litomin, V Makarenko, I Marfin, V Mossolov, N Shumeiko, A Solin, R Stefanovitch, J Suarez Gonzalez, A Tikhonov, A Fedorov, M Korzhik, O Missevitch, R Zuyeuski, W Beaumont, M Cardaci, E De Langhe, EA De Wolf, E Delmeire, S Ochesanu, M Tasevsky, PV Mechelen, J D’hondt, S De Weirdt, O Devroede, R Goorens, S Hannaert, J Heyninck, J Maes, MU Mozer, S Tavernier, W Van Doninck, L Van Lancker, P Van Mulders, I Villella, C Wastiels, C Yu, O Bouhali, O Charaf, B Clerbaux, P De Harenne, G De Lentdecker, JP Dewulf, S Elgammal, R Gindroz, GH Hammad, T Mahmoud, L Neukermans, M Pins, R Pins, S Rugovac, J Stefanescu, V Sundararajan, C Vander Velde

Abstract:

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is described. The detector operates at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It was conceived to study proton-proton (and lead-lead) collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV (5.5 TeV nucleon-nucleon) and at luminosities up to 1034cm -2s-1 (1027cm-2s-1). At the core of the CMS detector sits a high-magnetic-field and large-bore superconducting solenoid surrounding an all-silicon pixel and strip tracker, a lead-tungstate scintillating-crystals electromagnetic calorimeter, and a brass-scintillator sampling hadron calorimeter. The iron yoke of the flux-return is instrumented with four stations of muon detectors covering most of the 4π solid angle. Forward sampling calorimeters extend the pseudo-rapidity coverage to high values (|n | ≤ 5) assuring very good hermeticity. The overall dimensions of the CMS detector are a length of 21.6 m, a diameter of 14.6 m and a total weight of 12500t. © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA.

Absolute branching fractions of Cabibbo-suppressed DK(K)over-bar decays

PHYSICAL REVIEW D 77:9 (2008) ARTN 091106

Authors:

G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, A Lincoln, J Rademacker, DM Asner, KW Edwards, P Naik, J Reed, RA Briere, T Ferguson, G Tatishvili, H Vogel, ME Watkins, JL Rosner, JP Alexander, DG Cassel, JE Duboscq, R Ehrlich, L Fields, L Gibbons, R Gray, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, D Hertz, CD Jones, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, H Mahlke-Kruger, D Mohapatra, H Miyake, PUE Onyisi, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, X Shi, S Stroiney, WM Sun, T Wilksen, SB Athar, R Patel, J Yelton, P Rubin, BI Eisenstein, I Karliner, S Mehrabyan, N Lowrey, M Selen, EJ White, J Wiss, RE Mitchell, MR Shepherd, D Besson, TK Pedlar, D Cronin-Hennessy, KY Gao, J Hietala, Y Kubota, T Klein, BW Lang, R Poling, AW Scott, P Zweber, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, A Tomaradze, J Libby, A Powell, G Wilkinson, KM Ecklund, W Love, V Savinov, A Lopez, H Mendez, J Ramirez, JY Ge, DH Miller, IPJ Shipsey, B Xin, GS Adams, M Anderson, JP Cummings, I Danko, D Hu, B Moziak, J Napolitano, Q He, J Insler, H Muramatsu, CS Park, EH Thorndike, F Yang, M Artuso, S Blusk, S Khalil, J Li, R Mountain, S Nisar, K Randrianarivony, N Sultana, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, LM Zhang

Absolute measurement of hadronic branching fractions of the Ds+ meson

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 100:16 (2008) ARTN 161804

Authors:

JP Alexander, K Berkelman, DG Cassel, JE Duboscq, R Ehrlich, L Fields, L Gibbons, R Gray, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, D Hertz, CD Jones, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, H Mahlke-Kruger, D Mohapatra, PUE Onyisi, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, X Shi, S Stroiney, WM Sun, T Wilksen, SB Athar, R Patel, J Yelton, P Rubin, BI Eisenstein, I Karliner, S Mehrabyan, N Lowrey, M Selen, EJ White, J Wiss, RE Mitchell, MR Shepherd, D Besson, TK Pedlar, D Cronin-Hennessy, KY Gao, J Hietala, Y Kubota, T Klein, BW Lang, R Poling, AW Scott, P Zweber, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, A Tomaradze, J Libby, A Powell, G Wilkinson, KM Ecklund, W Love, V Savinov, A Lopez, H Mendez, J Ramirez, JY Ge, DH Miller, B Sanghi, IPJ Shipsey, B Xin, GS Adams, M Anderson, JP Cummings, I Danko, D Hu, B Moziak, J Napolitano, Q He, J Insler, H Muramatsu, CS Park, EH Thorndike, F Yang, M Artuso, S Blusk, S Khalil, J Li, R Mountain, S Nisar, K Randrianarivony, N Sultana, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, LM Zhang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, A Lincoln, J Rademacker, DM Asner, KW Edwards, P Naik, RA Briere, T Ferguson, G Tatishvili, H Vogel, ME Watkins, JL Rosner

Associated production for the Standard Model Higgs at CDF

2007 EUROPHYSICS CONFERENCE ON HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, PTS 1-12 110 (2008) ARTN 042005

Branching fractions for transitions of ψ(2S) to J

PHYSICAL REVIEW D 78:1 (2008) ARTN 011102

Authors:

H Mendez, JY Ge, DH Miller, IPJ Shipsey, B Xin, GS Adams, M Anderson, JP Cummings, I Danko, D Hu, B Moziak, J Napolitano, Q He, J Insler, H Muramatsu, CS Park, EH Thorndike, F Yang, M Artuso, S Blusk, S Khalil, J Li, R Mountain, S Nisar, K Randrianarivony, N Sultana, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, LM Zhang, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, M Dubrovin, A Lincoln, P Naik, J Rademacker, DM Asner, KW Edwards, J Reed, RA Briere, T Ferguson, G Tatishvili, H Vogel, ME Watkins, JL Rosner, JP Alexander, DG Cassel, JE Duboscq, R Ehrlich, L Fields, L Gibbons, R Gray, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, D Hertz, JM Hunt, J Kandaswamy, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, J Ledoux, H Mahlke-Krueger, D Mohapatra, PUE Onyisi, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, X Shi, S Stroiney, WM Sun, T Wilksen, SB Athar, R Patel, J Yelton, P Rubin, BI Eisenstein, I Karliner, S Mehrabyan, N Lowrey, M Selen, EJ White, J Wiss, RE Mitchell, MR Shepherd, D Besson, TK Pedlar, D Cronin-Hennessy, KY Gao, J Hietala, Y Kubota, T Klein, BW Lang, R Poling, AW Scott, P Zweber, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, A Tomaradze, J Libby, A Powell, G Wilkinson, KM Ecklund, W Love, V Savinov