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Representatives of Sofia University Were Distinguished for Outstanding Contributions to CERN Research

The CMS Collaboration awarded its annual prizes for outstanding contributions to young scholars for the implementation of the 2017 research program. Amongst them are two representatives of Sofia University – Todor Ivanov and Petur Tsrunchev.

The CMS Collaboration conducts research work in the Large CERN Hadron Collider. More than 4 000 scholars, engineers and technical staff from over 200 scientific institutes from more than 40 countries participate in it. In 2012, for the first time, the CMS collaboration found a new particle – the so-called Higgs boson which is linked to the mechanism of generating the mass of all particles in the Universe. A group of Sofia University research workers, led by Dr Leander Litov, are amongst the founders of the collaboration and have made significant contribution to the results already achieved.

Todor Ivanov is a Ph D Student at the Department Atomic Physics at the Faculty of Physics. He is in charge of the construction and maintenance of the Grid Cluster at Sofia University, the latter is being used for data processing of the CMS experiment. For the past year Todor Ivanov has been working at CERN and, within the CMS experiment, he has been in charge of the system for the distributed analysis of the data and the optimal use of the available resources of the global Grid-network.

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Petur Tsrunchev is a fourth year student at the Faculty of Physics of Sofia University. During his last year he was a CERN technical student. His activities are related to working out of new algorithms and methods determining the intensity of the interaction of the proton shaft by the CMS detector.

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