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Lothar Bauerdick, head of the CMS Center, wrote this week’s column. Lothar Bauerdick In all respects, 2011 was a hugely successful year for the LHC and the CMS experiment. Since January, the CMS collaboration has submitted 70 publications to the arXiv server. Over the course of the year, the experiment harvested 5.2 inverse femtobarns of collision data–five times the data to analyze compared with what was predicted a year ago. The CMS detector accumulated proton-proton collision data with a very…

Lothar Bauerdick, head of the CMS Center, wrote this week’s column. Lothar Bauerdick This year’s LHC physics run started in March. Since then the machine has broken many records, bringing its luminosity— the number of proton-proton collisions per second— to much higher levels than expected for this year. CMS now can take as much collision data in a single day as it accumulated during all of 2010. While taking massive amounts of new data, the CMS collaboration continues to publish…