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CMS tracking performance results from early LHC operation
(2010)The European Physical Journal CThe first LHC pp collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 0.9 and 2.36 TeV were recorded by the CMS detector in December 2009. The trajectories of charged particles produced in the collisions were reconstructed using the all-silicon Tracker and their momenta were measured in the 3.8 T axial magnetic field. Results from the Tracker commissioning are presented including studies of timing, efficiency, signal-to-noise, resolution, and ionization ...Journal Article -
Search for Quark Compositeness with the Dijet Centrality Ratio in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV
(2010)Physical Review LettersA search for quark compositeness in the form of quark contact interactions, based on hadronic jet pairs (dijets) produced in proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV, is described. The data sample of the study corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.9 pb−1 collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. The dijet centrality ratio, which quantifies the angular distribution of the dijets, is measured as a function of the invariant mass of ...Journal Article -
Search for Dijet Resonances in 7 TeV pp Collisions at CMS
(2010)Physical Review LettersA search for narrow resonances in the dijet mass spectrum is performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.9 pb−1 collected by the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level are presented on the product of the resonance cross section, branching fraction into dijets, and acceptance, separately for decays into quark-quark, quark-gluon, or gluon-gluon pairs. The data exclude ...Journal Article -
Transverse-Momentum and Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Hadrons in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV
(2010)Physical Review LettersCharged-hadron transverse-momentum and pseudorapidity distributions in proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV are measured with the inner tracking system of the CMS detector at the LHC. The charged-hadron yield is obtained by counting the number of reconstructed hits, hit pairs, and fully reconstructed charged-particle tracks. The combination of the three methods gives a charged-particle multiplicity per unit of pseudorapidity dNch/dη||η ...Journal Article -
Commissioning and Performance of the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker with Cosmic Ray Muons
(2010)Journal of InstrumentationJournal Article -
Calibration of the CMS drift tube chambers and measurement of the drift velocity with cosmic rays
(2010)Journal of InstrumentationJournal Article -
Precise mapping of the magnetic field in the CMS barrel yoke using cosmic rays
(2010)Journal of InstrumentationJournal Article -
Performance of CMS muon reconstruction in cosmic-ray events
(2010)Journal of InstrumentationJournal Article -
Transverse-momentum and pseudorapidity distributions of charged hadrons in pp collisions at √s=0.9 and 2.36 TeV
(2010)Journal of High Energy PhysicsMeasurements of inclusive charged-hadron transverse-momentum and pseudorapidity distributions are presented for proton-proton collisions at √s=0.9 and 2.36 TeV. The data were collected with the CMS detector during the LHC commissioning in December 2009. For non-single-diffractive interactions, the average charged-hadron transverse momentum is measured to be 0.46 ± 0.01 (stat.) ± 0.01 (syst.) GeV/c at 0.9 TeV and 0.50 ± 0.01 (stat.) ± 0.01 ...Journal Article -
Performance of CMS hadron calorimeter timing and synchronization using test beam, cosmic ray, and LHC beam data
(2010)Journal of InstrumentationJournal Article