REU project for CMS pixel Data AcQuisition

Contact: Anders Ryd

 The CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment will start taking data in
2008 at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) proton-proton collider at
CERN. CMS is a multi-purpose experiment intended to
study central collisions where we will look for many processes in
the Standard Model (e.g. top and Higgs) and beyond the Standard
Model (super-symmetry, extra dimensions etc.). Charged particle
tracking in CMS is done with an all Silicon tracker. The Si-pixel
detector is used for precise vertexing and seeding the track finding.
It consists of three barrel layers with a radius from 4 to 10 cm,
and two forward and backwards rings for tracks produced at small
angles with respect to the beam axis. The pixel detector has a
total of ~65M channels. At Cornell we have undertaken the task of
developing software for the calibration of this detector.