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@article{citeulike:4039627, abstract = {The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is described. The detector operates at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It was conceived to study proton-proton (and lead-lead) collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV (5.5 TeV nucleon-nucleon) and at luminosities up to 1034 cm[?]2 s[?]1 (1027 cm[?]2 s[?]1). At the core of the CMS detector sits a high-magnetic-field and large-bore superconducting solenoid surrounding an all-silicon pixel and strip tracker, a lead-tungstate scintillating-crystals electromagnetic calorimeter, and a brass-scintillator sampling hadron calorimeter. The iron yoke of the flux-return is instrumented with four stations of muon detectors covering most of the 4p solid angle. Forward sampling calorimeters extend the pseudorapidity coverage to high values (|e| [?] 5) assuring very good hermeticity. The overall dimensions of the CMS detector are a length of 21.6 m, a diameter of 14.6 m and a total weight of 12500 t.}, author = {Collaboration, The C. M. S. and Al</i>}, citeulike-article-id = {4039627}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/S08004}, doi = {10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/S08004}, journal = {Journal of Instrumentation}, keywords = {cms}, number = {08}, pages = {S08004}, posted-at = {2009-02-12 17:21:30}, priority = {0}, title = {The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/S08004}, volume = {3}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4039627 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4039627 N2 - The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is described. The detector operates at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It was conceived to study proton-proton (and lead-lead) collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV (5.5 TeV nucleon-nucleon) and at luminosities up to 1034 cm[?]2 s[?]1 (1027 cm[?]2 s[?]1). At the core of the CMS detector sits a high-magnetic-field and large-bore superconducting solenoid surrounding an all-silicon pixel and strip tracker, a lead-tungstate scintillating-crystals electromagnetic calorimeter, and a brass-scintillator sampling hadron calorimeter. The iron yoke of the flux-return is instrumented with four stations of muon detectors covering most of the 4p solid angle. Forward sampling calorimeters extend the pseudorapidity coverage to high values (|e| [?] 5) assuring very good hermeticity. The overall dimensions of the CMS detector are a length of 21.6 m, a diameter of 14.6 m and a total weight of 12500 t. IS - 08 JF - Journal of Instrumentation EP - S08004 TI - The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC VL - 3 SP - S08004 KW - cms AU - Collaboration, The AU - Al</i> PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/S08004 ER -