The First Year of the LHC running: Results from the CMS experiment

by Prof. Albert De Roeck (CERN)

Tuesday 11 Jan 2011, 17:15 → 18:15 Europe/Berlin

Auditorium

The LHC has just concluded its first proton-proton run at 7 TeV CM energy and heavy Ion run at 2.76 TeV, a new territory for collider physics. In this talk we will shortly review the data collection and operation of the CMS experiment, and will mainly address the first physics Highlights. These include QCD studies, which among others revealed a new collective effect in particle production seen for the first time in pp collisions, and jet and heavy flavor studies. The production of the heavy gauge bosons W,Z has been measured at 7 TeV, as well as the cross section for the production of top quark pairs. Finally it will be shown that the LHC experiments already enter a new regime for large number searches for new physics, going beyond the Tevatron reach. We'll conclude by showing prospects for the search for new Physics and Higgs particles for the 2011 LHC run.

Slides deroeck_munich2.pdf