Speaker
Frank Meier
(University of Nebraska (US))
Description
This talk presents the results of searches for various physics channels in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ and 8 TeV delivered by the LHC and collected with the CMS detector. Many obtained results crucially depend on the performance of the CMS pixel detector. Among others b- and tau-tagging as well as primary and secondary vertex reconstruction algorithms are discussed. Application of these algorithms for searches of the Higgs boson and measurements of branching ratio of $\mathrm{B}\to\mu^+\mu^-$ will be presented.
Author
Frank Meier
(University of Nebraska (US))
