NZCMS - Current Projects
CMS
BSC construction
Alan Bell currently leading the construction of the Beam Scintillator Counters project, a subdetector on the ends of the barrel of the main Compact Muon Solenoid detector experiment. The BSC is part of the Beam Radiation Monitoring project which is designed to provide monitoring of beam conditions and to give early warning of the onset of unfavourable conditions to enable beam aborts and power-down of sensitive CMS subdetector components. The BSC is made from scintillator tiles and photomultiplier tubes from the decommissioned OPAL detector from the CERN LEP electron-positron project.
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Heavy Ion Physics
Will be approx one HI run per month starting from probably 2009
Software support
WorkBook and SWGuide for CMSSW - provide overview of the scope of the problem
Medipix
Canterbury University has joined the Medipix collaboration and is presently using the technology in New Zealand in collaboration with Christchurch Hospital. There is presently one undergraduate student working on a Medipix project, and one PhD thesis student.
Phil and Anthony Butler were interviewed on Radio New Zealand's National Radio "Our Changing World" programme on Friday 21 September about colour x-ray imaging using the Medipix technology. The interview can now be accessed on podcast:
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