1 : Design principles and performances of CMS
The LHC and its experiments will further our understanding of the last unsolved issue in the Standard Model, that of the mechanism via which the underlying Electroweak symmetry is broken, resulting in two visible forces, the weak interaction and electromagnetism, which are so very different at low energy scales. In doing so, the LHC experiments may well uncover fundamental new physics, with wide-ranging implications on our understanding of the Universe.
This set of lectures will describe the requirements, challenges, design principles and choices made for one of those experiments, the Compact Muon Solenoid, CMS. The CMS experiment is a major undertaking that started in 1990 and involves more than 2000 scientists and engineers from more than 150 institutions worldwide. It is a 12,500-ton detector with over 10 million electronic channels, not including the 65 million pixel detector channels -– in brief, a technological marvel which is expected to break new ground in Particle Physics.
The lectures will summarize the highlights in the development of the experiment, starting from the design principles of CMS, reviewing precise crystal calorimetry, large-volume silicon-tracking, the exceptional challenges of high-speed, radiation-hard electronics and the state-of-the-art in high-field solenoid design.
