VCI 2010 - Vienna Conference on Instrumentation
The Vienna Conference on Instrumentation (VCI) is among the most distinguished conferences on particle detectors and takes place now for the 12th time.
The first conference in this series was organized by HEPHY in 1978 under its former name Wire Chamber Conference. This means that experts on particle physics detectors meet in Vienna triennially already for more than 30 years. Between 15th and 20th of February 2010 almost 300 participants will report on new developments in this field by giving more than 70 talks and presenting more than 100 posters. [website of the conference]
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The first paper of the CMS collaboration on data collected in proton-proton collisions at CERN's new accelerator, the LHC, has been accepted for publication. The study reports on the angular and momentum distributions of charged hadrons measured by the CMS experiment, one of the two general purpose detectors operating at the LHC.
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The Chamonix workshop in January brought important news for the LHC running schedule: Instead of raising the energy step by step it was decided to have a long run at 7 TeV and then move to 14 TeV after a single longer shut-down.
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FEMtech makes successful women in technology-oriented research known to the public. Univ.Doz.Dr.DI Claudia-Elisabeth Wulz, responsible for the CMS Trigger Project at the Institute, was nominated by the FEMtech team and finally selected by an interdisciplinary jury.