The first meeting of US-CMS after the cancellation of the SSC. It was the first step to welcome the US groups into CMS. (February 1994)
Cover of the report from the UCLA meeting
UCLA team member M. Ignatenko working in 2004 on the CSC endcap muon chambers, visible behind him. About half of the large chambers underwent final assembly and testing at UCLA before shipment to CERN. UCLA also designed and built thousands of circuit boards that were mounted on the chambers or situated in crates at the periphery of the detector.
The UCLA group led by Prof. David Cline was active in the R&D leading to CMS (in particular the endcap muon system). After the SSC project in the US was cancelled, other UCLA professors and their groups joined CMS and expanded the UCLA construction responsibilities to include the endcap muon Level-1 Trigger as well as the data CMS acquisition system, in collaboration with other institutes. Over time the people making significant contributions to CMS included ten professors, seven senior researchers, 11 post-doctoral scholars, seven graduate students and nine engineers and technicians, as well as summer students and undergraduates. They designed, built or assembled major parts of CMS including hundreds of endcap muon cathode strip chambers, thousands of endcap muon trigger and readout circuit boards, and the central CMS data acquisition system. They were heavily involved in CMS operations and in multiple physics analyses, and held numerous management positions including muon system manager, CMS Run Coordinator, convenerships in physics, and deputy spokesperson. UCLA is active in the CMS Upgrade projects of both the muon system and the Level-1 Trigger, and maintains a continuous presence at CERN.
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