The first CMS week of 2024 took place during the second week of February, Monday 5th to Friday 9th. It was a rather busy week with a full agenda including a large number of plenary and parallel sessions. CMS is preparing the 2024 incoming data taking, but it is also analyzing both the large Run 2 data samples (still not completed) and the new Run 3 data set. In addition, as usual, a full afternoon was dedicated to the status of the Phase-II upgrade activities.
The most important feature during the week though was the election of the new spokesperson, who will takes the reigns in 2024-26. The candidates gave plenty of time to the community to review their plans and their records (USCMS community had 2 sessions: first, second). To come to a conclusion between the excellent field of candidates there was a runoff needed because no candidate could accumulate the majority of the votes:
- First round:
- 454 votes – Gautier Hamel de Monchenault (IRFU/CEA, Saclay, France)
- 370 votes – Lucia Silvestris (INFN-Bari, Italy)
- 225 votes – Shahram Rahatlou (INFN-Roma, Italy)
- 170 votes – Claudia-Elisabeth Wulz (HEPHY, Austria)
- 15 votes – Abstains
- Second round:
- 752 vote – Gautier Hamel de Monchenault (IRFU/CEA, Saclay, France)
- 610 votes – Lucia Silvestris (INFN-Bari, Italy)
- 35 votes – Abstain
Therefore, Gautier will be next CMS spokesperson starting in September 2024. Congratulations!
On other topics, the presentation that generated a lot of discussion during the week was from the “Next generation trigger” proponents and the many consequences for everyone involved in trigger activities in CMS.
Members of the PPC gave a couple relevant talks during that week:
- Dima gave a plenary talk on the computing operations readiness for the 2024 data taking, and
- Guillelmo gave a report on the status of the same-sign WW analysis in Run 3.