The year 2020 is coming to an end; despite its exceptional difficulties and challenges caused by the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic, the CMS collaboration reached many important milestones during this period. This overview gives a brief glimpse of some of the important achievements reached by CMS this year.
The CMS Collaboration completed another two-year cycle in its traditional top management rotation. Starting from the 1st of September 2020 until August 2022, the new spokesperson Luca Malgeri and the two deputies Gautier Hamel de Monchenault and Jim Olsen will lead more than 5000 people working at CMS.
CMS celebrated the summer solstice one day early, on June 19th, with the submission of the 1000th paper to a refereed journal: a few months later, on the 24th November, the announcement that 1000 papers passed peer review and were accepted for publication, an accomplishment never before reached by a high energy physics experiment. These papers constitute an exceptional legacy to humanity, and many of them provided outstanding breakthroughs in our quest to understand the Universe.