LIP is a member of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), presently in operation at CERN. The experiment studies very high energy collisions of proton and nuclear beams with the goal of investigating the most fundamental properties of matter and, in particular, the study of the nature of the electroweak symmetry breaking and the origin of mass, exploiting the discovery opportunities offered by the new LHC energy.
The activities of the LIP/CMS group include:
- Proton-proton physics, in particular measurements of Electroweak, Top, Higgs, B-physics, Quarkonia, Heavy-ions, and BSM searches;
- Heavy-Ion physics, by exploring heavy flavour as probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP);
- Hardware and software for the trigger and the readout system of the electromagnetic calorimeter, and the Precision Proton Spectrometer (PPS);
- New detector developments for the CMS Upgrade program: MIP Timing Detector (MTD) and Precision Proton Spectrometer (PPS2)
The CMS Detector
