At the end of January, the project took a significant step forward with the successful review en route to Critical Decision 2 and partial Critical Decision 3 approval.
Steve Nahn
For the last six years, the mission of U.S. CMS scientists has been, in a phrase, to complete the LHC Phase 1 Upgrades. On May 1, with the successful outcome of the DOE Critical Decision 4 review, the U.S. CMS group fulfilled that mission. We’re proud of all the work we’ve done to upgrade the CMS detector so it can handle the increased luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider.
In CMS, we are amidst momentous times in several dimensions (but not extra dimensions, or at least not yet!).
The forward pixel detector, part of the CMS Phase 1 upgrade, is taking shape out at SiDet. The new device lies at the heart of the CMS detector.