In January, over 100 graduate students, postdocs and faculty from around the world joined the Fermilab LHC Physics Center for its annual CMS Data Analysis School. Even though there are similar CMS schools hosted by other institutions around the globe, the LHC Physics Center school remains the one that provides the most comprehensive curriculum and the most attended one.
The 17 CMS physicists selected in a competitive process as Distinguished Researchers for 2020, 14 juniors and three seniors, are accomplished individuals at various stages of their careers. The program provides resources to help strengthen their research programs while contributing to research activities at the LHC Physics Center.
From Jan. 14-18, more than 100 graduate students, postdocs and faculty from around the world came to Fermilab to participate in the school. Students are coached by CMS experts in hands-on sessions covering topics such as particle identification, statistics, machine learning and triggering. They also learn how to write high-quality scientific publications.
On Aug. 28, the CMS collaboration announced the observation of the Higgs-to-bb decay mode with the significance of 5 sigma. The roots of the CMS Higgs-to-bb analysis lie at the Fermilab LHC Physics Center.
The annual awards honor individuals who have distinguished themselves by performing significant and lasting contributions to different components of the CMS experiment.
The course gives participants a good grasp of the reconstruction process, called particle flow, that leads to the identification of each final state particle in a CMS event.
This program consists of 21 sessions on hardware, software, triggers and analysis tools, among other topics.
After months of winter shutdown, the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is once again seeing collisions and is ready to take data.