Status and Commissioning of the CMS Experiment

Abstract

After a brief overview of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, the status of construction and installation is described in the first part of the note. The second part of the document is devoted to a discussion of the general commissioning strategy of the CMS experiment, with a particular emphasis on trigger, calibration and alignment. Aspects of b-physics, as well as examples for early physics with CMS are also presented. CMS will be ready for data taking in time for the first collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in late 2007.Comment: Talks given at the 11th Intl. Conference on B-Physics at Hadron Machines BEAUTY 2006, Oxford (UK), September 200

Energetic axion-like particle production in galaxies

“…It is interesting to examine also the possibility for detecting a potential signal from diffuse energetic ALP flux, by exploiting existing detector equipment of the big detector systems of nowadays, such as ATLAS [30] and CMS [31]. The equipment which is most promising for detection of single photon events at energies above 10 GeV is the superconducting solenoids of these multipurpose detectors with their meter-scale size and Tesla-scale magnetic fields.…”