Group photo of Aachen IIIA CMS team in 2010, in front of RWTH Aachen University physics centre
Workshop Aachen IIIA, muon DT chamber test stand (left) and electronics
Lab in Aachen IIIA, working on DT gas system and DT velocity monitoring chambers (VDC)
Lab in Aachen IIIA, with VDCs (drift velocity monitoring chambers for DT system) built there
The CMS group of the Physics Institute IIIA currently has fifty active members, including many PhD students, and both a mechanical and an electronic workshop. The two professors Martin Erdmann and Thomas Hebbeker (head of the institute) are the CMS group leaders. The group has built a quarter of the DT muon chambers and is still contributing to running, maintaining, calibrating and upgrading the muon system, which now also includes the GEM muon detectors.
Their Standard Model analyses centre on top physics in general and top-Higgs couplings in particular. The group contributes to searches for new physics in a variety of channels –– heavy W bosons, unparticles, Supersymmetry with R-parity violation, extra dimensions –– and through a global model independent search. The group has developed the VISTA analysis framework and explores deep learning methods for data analyses.
About Physics Institute IIIA of RWTH Aachen University
From: Germany
CMS member since: 1992
Website: http://www.physik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/~mya/Physik/?lidx=1