CMS is one of the detectors of the 4 experiments (in addition to Alice, Atlas and LHCb) currently taking data at the LHC, the CERN protons collider near Geneva. CMS is located at point 5 of the LHC Collider.
To measure the energy of the particles one uses a magnetic field all the more powerful that the particles are energetic.
The CMS experiment is installed at the LHC proton collider at Cern and has begun its data taking campaign in 2009.
The electromagnetic calorimeter was designed to initially allow for low luminosity discovery of the Higgs boson decaying into two photons.
Goal
The main objective of the CMS Electronique project is the development of an electronic device called the selective read-out processor for the electromagnetic calorimeter (SRP for Selective Read-out Processor) of the CMS experiment. The SRP is part of the read-out electronics of the "Off-Detector" calorimeter due to its location in the underground service cavern outside the experimental cavern.
