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P UBLISHED BY I NSTITUTE OF P HYSICS P UBLISHING AND SISSA
R ECEIVED : January 9, 2008
ACCEPTED : May 18, 2008
P UBLISHED : August 14, 2008
T HE CERN L ARGE H ADRON C OLLIDER : ACCELERATOR AND E XPERIMENTS
2008 JINST 3 S08004
The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC
CMS Collaboration
A BSTRACT: 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 luminosi-
ties 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 4 solid angle. Forward sampling calorimeters extend the pseudo-
rapidity coverage to high values (|| 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.
K EYWORDS : Instrumentation for particle accelerators and storage rings - high energy; Gaseous
detectors; Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes; Solid state detectors;
Calorimeters; Gamma detectors; Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics;
Particle identification methods; Particle tracking detectors; Spectrometers; Analogue electronic
circuits; Control and monitor systems online; Data acquisition circuits; Data acquisition concepts;
Detector control systems; Digital electronic circuits; Digital signal processing; Electronic detector
readout concepts; Front-end electronics for detector readout; Modular electronics; Online farms
and online filtering; Optical detector readout concepts; Trigger concepts and systems; VLSI
circuits; Analysis and statistical methods; Computing; Data processing methods; Data reduction
methods; Pattern recognition, cluster finding, calibration and fitting methods; Software
architectures; Detector alignment and calibration methods; Detector cooling and
thermo-stabilization; Detector design and construction technologies and materials; Detector
grounding; Manufacturing; Overall mechanics design; Special cables; Voltage distributions.