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The Compact Muon Solenoid
(CMS)
is the multipurpose Detector for the Large Hadron Collider
(
LHC),
which is under construction at the European Laboratory for
Nuclear Research CERN
(Switzerland, Geneva),
for the studies of the proton interactions at the energy of 14 TeV.
Experimental complex will start to operate in 2007 and will
provide the unique opportunity to answer the most fundamental
questions of the present-day particle physics:
- What is the origin of mass in nature?
- Is there a Supersymmetry (SUSY) leading to
Grand Unification of the three forces at the energy 1016
GeV?
- What is the origin of the matter-antimatter
asymmetry?
- Does the new state of matter, the
quark-gluon plasma exist?
The CMS design objectives to exploit full LHC discovery
potential are as following: a very good and redundant muon detection system,
the best possible electromagnetic calorimeter, high-quality inner tracker,
a good hermiticity of calorimetry.
Construction of the CMS detector is a joint effort
of more than 2000 scientists from 32 countries forming an international
CMS collaboration.
Important part of the CMS community is the Russia and Dubna Member States
(RDMS) CMS collaboration.
LPP JINR Physicists participates in the CMS project in the
framework of the
RDMS
CMS collaboration.
The major activities of JINR are focusing on the design, construction,
installation and commissioning of following CMS sub-systems:
Endcap Hadron Calorimeter (
HE),
First Forward Muon Station (
ME1/1),
Preshower Detector (SE)
and preparation of Physics Program
for proton-proton and heavy ions collisions with the CMS Detector.
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