RPC meeting Bogota April 09 Carlos Avila1 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

RPC meeting Bogota April 09 Carlos Avila2 Activity #months at CERN Camilo Carrillo, PhD Student RPCs 12 B. GomezRPCs1 J. SanabriaRPCs1 C. AvilaRPCs1 TOTAL Activity #months at CERN Camilo Carrillo, PhD student RPCs 6 Alberto OCampo, PhD Student RPCs6 B. GomezRPCs1 Marcelo Baquero, Engineer Data Operations 12 C. AvilaRPCs1 TOTAL 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

RPC meeting Bogota April 09 Carlos Avila3 Our Mobility to CERN 2008 Activity#months at CERN Camilo Carrillo, PhD student RPCs11 Alberto Ocampo, PhD student RPCs12 Andres Osorio, PostdocRPCs3 Sebastian Bonilla, Engineer Preshower6 Juan Rodriguez, Engineer Preshower6 Bernardo Gomez, Professor RPCs1 Carlos Avila, ProfessorRPCs1 Marcelo Baquero, Engineer Data Operations 7 Diego Reyes, EngineerData Operations 6 Juan C. Sanabria, Professor RPCs6 TOTAL59 HELEN (40 months): CMS COLCIENCIAS

RPC meeting Bogota April 09 Carlos Avila4 UNIANDES ACTIVITIES IN CMS Continued RPC commissioning with 2 graduate students. More than 100 shifts/student of RPC offline DQM performed by our students in 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 E T 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.

RPC meeting Bogota April 09 Carlos Avila5 Pledge of COLOMBIA For ALL CMS System Areas All pledged numbers in man-months SystemDetailsMoA Pledged 2008MoA Pledged 2009 Tracker ECAL HCAL MuonDT, Ali MuonME MuonCSC MuonRPC12,0 Trigger DAQ Computing 7,012,0 Offline 6,0 Run Coordination 1,0 Technical Coordination ALL CMS 25,0 Total Number of Authors from Colombia = 6 (2 students, 1 postdoc, 3 professors)

RPC meeting Bogota April 09 Carlos Avila6 PLANS FOR 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 Trip of Marcello Maggi and Giuseppe Iaselli to Bogota in April 2009 ISSUES TO FACE IN 2009 HELEN Program ends by end of April 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 Also we expect to bring new students in 2010 but that depends on financial support.

RPC meeting Bogota April 09 Carlos Avila7 The new version of HELEN program: Unfortunately Colombia has not a S&T agreement signed with the EU.

RPC meeting Bogota April 09 Carlos Avila8 We could have a chance to participate in the Erasmus Mundus program Still need to look for other options: INFN?

RPC meeting Bogota April 09 Carlos Avila9 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 COMPUTATION EXTENSION -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 participation in 1st EELA2 conference, Bogota, Feb MSc student with a 3 monts stay at CERN Setup an instrumentation lab in UNIANDES

RPC meeting Bogota April 09 Carlos Avila10 UNIANDES – CERN ESTUDIANTES 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

RPC meeting Bogota April 09 Carlos Avila11 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.