CMS IFCA group
Installing components of the Link optical alignment system in the muon endcap
Installation of the Link muon alignment system in the CMS cavern, and testing the data acquisition and slow control for the system
Link Disk (negative side), which sits at the centre of YE-1. The Link Disk is one of the central components of the Link alignment system. It provides a relative alignment between the muon and the tracker. There is an identical link disk at the YE+1 endcap disk.
The team working at the ISR lab on the calibration of the alignment ring for the link alignment system. Behind, there is the Alignment Ring - one at each Tracker endcap.
The IFCA group has contributed to CMS in detector tasks and physics analysis. The group initially contributed to the Muon System, building and operating and opto-mechanical alignment system (the Link System) relating the Tracker and the muon system. The group has also had a strong contribution to Grid computing (IFCA hosts part of the Tier-2 Spanish centre). The group participates very actively in Physics Object Group activities: Muon, b-tagging, missing transverse energy, etc. and in several Physics Analysis Groups groups, from Higgs to Top, SM and Exotica. The group’s physics interests mainly concentrate on Higgs production (WW decay channel), WW and WZ production, and top cross-section, and now they focus on searches for dark matter searches in mono-Higgs and ttbar+DM channels as well as searches for stops (Supersymmetric partners of the top quark).
For the high-luminosity phase, the group’s detector effort has shifted to Pixels, where they are committed to the construction of the Phase-2 Pixel Tracker, and the test of radiation-hard 3D sensors for the innermost pixel layers.
About Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria
From: Spain
CMS member since: 1994
Website: https://ifca.unican.es/en-us/research/high-energy-physics-and-instrumentation