The ETH Zurich group has been a member of CMS since 1994. Currently, the CMS-ETH group consists of three professors, one professor emeritus, four senior scientists, 11 post-docs and 16 PhD students, with the additional support of engineers, technicians and administrative personnel.

Since the very early days of CMS, ETH Zurich played a major role in shaping the CMS design concept and in the evaluation of the CMS physics potential, followed by a very strong involvement in the construction and operation of several key components of the detector: the superconducting magnet (barrel yoke procurement, superconducting cables production), the Electromagnetic Calorimeter (very significant contributions, including financial ones, to all aspects of this sub-detector, from early R&D for crystals to the final complete integration of the front-end readout electronics and the detector control system), the silicon Pixel and Strip Tracker (module bonding for the Tracker endcap, readout-chip development and module testing for the Phase-0 and Phase-1 barrel Pixel Tracker) and finally substantial contributions to the CMS Integration and Engineering Centre. Since the start of data taking, the ETH group has strongly contributed to the physics output of CMS, with data analyses addressing Standard Model physics, Higgs searches/measurements, as well as searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. Finally, several members of the group have had major management/leadership responsibilities in CMS, including the ECAL Institution Board, the Collaboration Board, Physics Coordination and the Spokesperson Team.

About Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Zurich

From: Switzerland

CMS member since: 1994

Website: http://www.ipa.phys.ethz.ch