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The Upcoming Dawn of CMS and the LHC
Paris Sphicas (CERN)
Seminar Room 3, 15:00
After two decades of design work, R&D, prototyping, construction,
assembling and extensive testing, CMS is gearing up to register
proton-proton collisions delivered by the Large Hadron Collider.
The goals remain unaltered since the inception of this huge
physics program: to understand the last unsolved issue in the
Standard Model, that of the mechanism via which the underlying
Electroweak symmetry is broken. More generally, CMS will probe
the physics of the TeV energy scale, where many extensions of
the Standard Model may (have to) manifest themselves. I will
review the requirements, the challenges, the design principles
and the choices made for the CMS detector and show how it is
designed to definitely probe the physics of the TeV scale. I will
then describe the program of work at the startup of the LHC and
our expectations for early physics.
