FIZIKA B 14 (2005)  2, 259 - 282

THE CMS EXPERIMENT AT THE LHC

DANIEL DENEGRI^a, NIKOLA GODINOVIĆ^b, IVICA PULJAK^b, ŽELJKO ANTUNOVIĆ^c and MILE DŽELALIJA^c,
for the CMS Collaboration

^aDAPNIA/SPP, CE Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
^bUniversity of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Arhitecture, Split, Croatia
^cUniversity of Split, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Education, Split, Croatia

Dedicated to the memory of Professor Dubravko Tadić

Received 27 June 2005 ;        Accepted 12 November 2005
Online 6 February 2006

We discuss the current status of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) machine, the progress on the construction of the CMS detector and some expectations for physics studies and searches at the LHC.

PACS numbers: 29.20.Lq, 29.40.Gx, 12.60.Fr, 14.80.Bn, 14.80.Ly;
UDC 539.126, 539.127

Keywords: LHC, CMS, stage of construction, electroweak symmetry breaking, generation of particle masses, Higgs mechanism, supersymmetric particles

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