LAHORE: (Wednesday, May 14, 2014): Spokesman for Compact Muon Slenoid (CMS) Dr Tiziano Camporesi from CERN, the renowned European Organization for Nuclear Research probing fundamental structures of universe, has said that Pakistani engineers, physists, software engineers and technicians have been “major contributor” to construction of CMS and they have substantially worked to build, test, install and commission the project. He said this while he was giving a presentation during a 6-member delegation meeting of CMS, CERN with PU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran and senior PU faculty members at Committee Room of VC’s office here on Wednesday. CMS delegation consisted of Mr Andrzej Charkiewicz, Dr Frank Hartmann, Dr Duccio Abbaneo, Dr Paraskevas Spicas, Mr Suhail Ahmed Janjua, Dr Badar Suleman and PU Registrar Prof Dr Amin Ather, Prof Dr Khawaja Harris Rasheed, Dr Shoukat Ali and others were also present on the occasion.

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The goal of CMS experiment is to investigate a wide range of physics, including the search for the Higgs boson, extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter. Dr Tizano said that Pakistani scientists had developed detector control system and testing of Data Quality and Monitoring is responsibility of Pakistani team. He said that Pakistani team also built front-end electronics for CMS RE4 project and playing leading role in installing and commissioning RP4 project. He said that his organization’s future goal was to investigate into dark matter, the true nature of galaxies. He said that CERN was a global laboratory and an organization to provide tools to academicians to do research on physics and to explore nature. On this occasion, PU VC Dr Mujahid Kamran gave a briefing on Punjab University and detailed research activities. It is pertinent to mention here that CERN uses the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter – the fundamental particles. Founded in 1954, the CERN laboratory sits astride the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva. It was one of Europe's first joint ventures and now has 21 member states.