The Commissioning and Start-up of the CMS Experiment
by Nicolo Cartiglia, INFN, Turin, Italy

Abstract:

In this talk I will review the  design, construction, assembly and preparations of the Compact Muon 
Solenoid (CMS) experiment for LHC: after almost 20 years of preparation CMS is ready to start data 
taking. The main design features of the detector will be analyzed and the commissioning and 
preparation for beam wth the ups and downs of the start-up will be discussed.