2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/172938The status of the CMS experiment is described. After a brief review of the detector design and a short overview of the first 5 years of assembly, the focus of this presentation will be the parallel activities of completing and commissioning over the last 2 years and the readiness of CMS for the exciting prospect of first LHC operation.ICHEP08, Philadelphia, USA, July 2008. 9 pagesHigh Energy Physics - Experimenttext