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UNIANDES – COLOMBIA

HEP GROUP WORKING IN CMS• 3 PROFESSORS:

- Bernardo Gómez

- Juan Carlos Sanabria

- Carlos Ávila

• 2 PHD STUDENTS:

- Camilo Carrillo

- Alberto Ocampo

• 1 POSTDOC:

- Andrés Osorio

• 3 ENGINEERS:

- Diego Reyes

- Ariel Gómez

- Luís Lopera

• 1 MsC Student:

- Andres Cabrera

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Activity

#months at CERN

Camilo Carrillo, PhD Student

RPCs 12

B. Gomez RPCs 1

J. Sanabria RPCs 1

C. Avila RPCs 1

TOTAL 15

2006

Activity #months at CERN

Camilo Carrillo, PhD student

RPCs 6

Alberto OCampo, PhD Student

RPCs 6

B. Gomez RPCs 1

Marcelo Baquero, Engineer

Data Operations

12

C. Avila RPCs 1

TOTAL 26

2007

HELEN Fellowships:

Our Mobility to CERN 2006 AND 2007

Two trips of Marcello Maggi to Colombia:

1) May 2007 – To help setup CMSSW

2) October 2007 – To help setup a GRID node at UNIANDES.

CMS

COLCIENCIAS

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Our Mobility to CERN 2008Activity #months at

CERN

Camilo Carrillo, PhD student

RPCs 11

Alberto Ocampo, PhD student

RPCs 12

Andres Osorio, Postdoc RPCs 3

Sebastian Bonilla, Engineer

Preshower 6

Juan Rodriguez, Engineer

Preshower 6

Bernardo Gomez, Professor

RPCs 1

Carlos Avila, Professor RPCs 1

Marcelo Baquero, Engineer

Data Operations

7

Diego Reyes, Engineer Data Operations

6

Juan C. Sanabria, Professor

RPCs 6

TOTAL 59

HELEN (40 months):

CMS

COLCIENCIAS

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UNIANDES ACTIVITIES IN CMS 2008

1. Continued RPC commissioning with 2 graduate students. More than 100 shifts/student of RPC offline DQM performed by our students in 2008.

2. Contributed to RPC software with a 6 months stay of one professor and the involvement of a postdoc from our group.

3. Participated in Data operations group with one Engineer.

4. Stays of 6 months of two engineers to work in preshower detector

5. Defined thesis topics for our 2 PhD students:

- Search for Heavy Stable Charged Particles using the RPC system of CMS

- Search for squarks and gluinos in events with muons, jets and missing ET

5. Signed MOU between COLCIENCIAS and CMS

6. TIER 3 node at UNIANDES up and running.

7. Contributed with 25 man-months of service tasks in 2008.

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Pledge of COLOMBIA

For ALL CMS System Areas

All pledged numbers in man-months

System Details MoA Pledged 2008 MoA Pledged 2009

Tracker      

ECAL      

HCAL      

Muon DT, Ali    

Muon ME    

Muon CSC    

Muon RPC 12,0 12,0

Trigger      

DAQ      

Computing   7,0 12,0

Offline   6,0  

Run Coordination     1,0

Technical Coordination    

ALL CMS   25,0 25,0

Total Number of Authors from Colombia = 6 (2 students, 1 postdoc, 3 professors)

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PLANS FOR 2009

-The two students and the postdoc will remain all 2009 at CERN. Students will slowly move from commissioning activities and will concentrate in SUSY and Exotics physics analysis groups.

- Plan to have three engineers in data operations group the whole 2009

-Trip of Marcello Maggi and Giuseppe Iaselli to Bogota in April 2009

ISSUES TO FACE IN 2009

HELEN Program ends by end of April 2009. Need to find other sources to support the stay of our students. We have money to keep our students for the rest of 2009 but need to figure out the way to finance their stays in 2010.

Also we expect to bring new students in 2010 but that depends on financial support.

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The new version of HELEN program:

Unfortunately Colombia has not a S&T agreement signed with the EU.

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We could have a chance to participate in the Erasmus Mundus program

Still need to look for other options: INFN?

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UNIANDES – CERN UNIANDES Group: 3 profesors , 1 postdoc, 2 PhD students , 3 engineers, 2 MsC Students

CMS EXPERIMENT Uniandes is a collborator since March 2006

MEDIPIX 3 UNIANDES joined this collaboration in

septemeber 2008

PHYSICS DOCTORATE PROGRAM

MICROELECTRONICS CENTER CMUA

GRID

COMPUTATIONEXTENSION

-2 PhD students with 2 years stays at CERN (Alberto Ocampo, Camilo Carrillo)

-1 Postdoc: 1 year stay at CERN (Andrés Osorio)

- 2 MSc students: (Diego Roa, Andrés Cabrera)

Participating in muon physics

Hardware: RPC system

Physics: Search for HSCps, squarks

2 MSc Engineering students with 6 months stays at CERN (Juan Rodríguez, Sebastián Bonilla)

Preshower - DAQ

2 Engineers in Bogota from UNIANDES DTI. (Daniel Burbano, Michael Pérez)

2 Engineers with 18 month stays at CERN (Marcelo Baquero, Diego Reyes)

Setup GRID Node at Uniandes

Participacipation of maintenance of CMS GRID

Only Colombian institution participating in EELA2 project

INTERNATIONAL Our profesors are membser of committees ICFA, ILCSC, IUPAP-C11

PUBLIC publications in paper news(El tiempo, Cromos, Nota Uniandina etc.). Entrevistas radiales (la FM, Radio nacional, etc.)

COLABORATION WITH UNIVERSIDAD DE NARIÑO- PASTO: 3 undergraduate (Lina Huertas, Dexy Villa, Diego Gómez)

CONFERENCES: - Congreso Nal de Física, Ibagué 2007: 2 talks –CMS week, CERN dic. 2008: 2 conferences; -Universidad de Barranquilla y Univalle. –VII Latinamerican symposium of Nuclear Physics, Peru 2007; - co-organizadores de escuela CERN-LA, Antioquia, Colombia, March 2009 - participation in 1st EELA2 conference, Bogota, Feb 2009.

1 MSc student with a 3 monts stay at CERN

Setup an instrumentation lab in UNIANDES

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UNIANDES – CERNESTUDIANTES E INGENIEROS (desde 2006)

CENTRO MICROELECTRONICA

CMUA

COMPUTACION GRID

EXTENSION

4 Ingenieros:

M. Baquero, D. Reyes, A. Gómez, L. Lopera

COLABORACION CON UN. DE NARIÑO- PASTO: 3 Tesis de pregrado (Lina Huertas, Dexy Villa, Diego Gómez)

•2 estudiantes de doctorado: C. Carrillo, A. Ocampo.

• 6 estudiantes de maestría: L. Gómez, J. Brochero, A. Monroy, D. Roa, C. Bula, A. Cabrera.

• 8 estudiantes de pregrado: R. Rincon, C. Bula, A. Cabrera, F. Roa, F. Mendez, S. Castro, L. Linares, P. Rueda,

DEPTO. FISICA

2 estudiantes de maestría: S. Bonilla, J. Rodríguez

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CONCLUSIONS

-UNIANDES group is very active in CMS experiment

- We have a TIER 3 running we need to optimize its use in the data analysis of our students.

-We are interested in continuing our participation in the RPC project, we are looking for new students

- We are looking forward for the start up of LH collisions to complete theses of Camilo and Alberto.

- We are facing now a challenge to look for extra sources of finnancial support.