CMS results and status

TL;DR

This paper summarizes the CMS experiment's results and operational status at the LHC, focusing on proton-proton collision data up to 7 TeV collected until 2011, and highlights its diverse physics measurements and potential for new physics searches.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of CMS detector performance, data collection, and physics analyses conducted up to 2011 at the LHC, emphasizing its capabilities for Standard Model and new physics investigations.

Findings

Successful operation of CMS at 7 TeV with high data quality

Wide range of physics measurements including Standard Model tests

Foundation laid for future new physics searches

Abstract

The CMS experiment is a multi-purpose detector successfully operated at the LHC where predominantly pp collisions take place at various centre of mass energies up to sqrt(s)=8 TeV at present. Discussed are pp collision results until end of 2011, corresponding to centre of mass energies of up to sqrt(s)=7 TeV. The excellent performance of the accelerator and the experiment allows for dedicated physics measurements over a wide range of subjects, starting from particle identification, encompassing Standard Model measurements in multijet, boson, heavy flavour and top quark physics, building the basis for new physics searches interpreted within the framework of various models and theories.