One of the first APV25 read-out chips for the CMS Tracker in an evaluation setup at Imperial College in late 1999, accompanied by some of those responsible for its development. From the bottom: M.Raymond (Imperial College), S. Marchioro (CERN), M. French (Rutherford Appleton Lab), G. Hall (Imperial College)
Imperial College post-doc R. Bainbridge examining the inside of the Tracker Inner Barrel at the CERN Tracker Integration Facility, prior to final installation
J. Fulcher and O. Zorba, both of Imperial College, during the installation of the Tracker Front-End Drivers into crates at the CERN Tracker Integration Facility, in preparation for commissioning the first 25% of the full Tracker
P. Sharp, the Tracker project manager, in front of the assembled Tracker Outer Barrel detector prior to insertion of the Tracker Inner Barrel
I. Church (Rutherford Appleton Lab) holding one of the Tracker Front-End Driver cards following acceptance tests, and surrounded by boxed FEDs awaiting transport to CERN
One of the first fully assembled Tracker Front-End Driver cards
Part of one half-shell of the Tracker Inner Barrel detector during assembly in Pisa
The Imperial College group was a founding member of CMS; the group has provided overall leadership (T. Virdee), and played prominent roles in detector activities including the Tracker (G. Hall), L1 Trigger and ECAL as well as physics analyses.
The group is currently ~50 people, including faculty, research staff and PhD students. Their on-going operational commitments focus on the L1 Trigger, Tracker and Computing. The group has an established tradition of technical innovation in detector design within CMS, from the original design concepts to the upgrades. Their upgrade activities are focused on the Tracker, HGCAL and L1 Trigger – with a common element being the development of powerful digital read-out electronics. They have a long history of physics analyses, with particular focus on searches for Supersymmetry and dark matter, and the Higgs sector. Looking ahead they will continue to search for new particles, including long-lived topologies, continue to elucidate the nature of the Higgs boson through the di-photon, di-tau and invisible states, as well as deepening our understanding of the SM backgrounds.
About Imperial College London
From: United Kingdom
CMS member since: 1992
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