Prof. Dr. Mithat KAYA

Marmara Universitesi

Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi

Fizik Bölümü, Göztepe Yerleşkesi,

34722, Kadıköy/Istanbul

Tel:05335121193

Fax:02163478783

E-mail.1: mithat.kaya@marmara.edu.tr

E-mail.2: mithat@cern.ch

Brief History of CMS
1998 Construction of surface buildings for CMS begins.
2000 LEP shut down, construction of cavern begins.
2004 Cavern completed.
10 September 2008 First beam in CMS.
23 November 2009 First collisions inCMS.
30 March 2010 First 7 TeV proton-proton collisions in CMS.
7 November 2010 First lead ion collisions in CMS.
5 April 2012 First 8 TeV proton-proton collisions in CMS.
29 April 2012 Announcement of the 2011 discovery of the first new particle generated here, the excited neutral Xi-b baryon.
4 July 2012 Spokesperson announced evidence for a particle at about 125 GeV at a seminar and webcast. This is "consistent with the Higgs boson".
16 February 2013
End of the LHC 'Run 1' (2009-2013).[9]