Tag: CMS

  • Blazing trails: CMS cavern evacuation paves the way for future safety design

    How an evacuation of the CMS experimental cavern has provided invaluable human behaviour data to improve emergency preparedness for complex underground facilities

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  • CMS releases Higgs boson discovery data to the public

    CMS releases Higgs boson discovery data to the public

    The collaboration has also made publicly available the software that it developed to search for the unique particle

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  • The next-generation triggers for CERN detectors

    The next-generation triggers for CERN detectors

    The recently launched Next-Generation Triggers project is set to remarkably increase the efficiency, sensitivity and modelling of CERN experiments

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  • The CMS experiment at CERN measures a key parameter of the Standard Model

    The CMS experiment at CERN measures a key parameter of the Standard Model

    With this measurement the LHC is again demonstrating its ability to provide very high-precision measurements and bringing new insights into an old mystery

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  • First observation of photons-to-taus in proton–proton collisions by CMS

    First observation of photons-to-taus in proton–proton collisions by CMS

    Using the outstanding tracking capabilities of the CMS detector, the collaboration observed two photons producing two tau-leptons in proton–proton collisions

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  • Hearing the sound of quark–gluon plasma

    Hearing the sound of quark–gluon plasma

    The CMS collaboration has measured the speed of sound in the quark–gluon plasma more precisely than ever before, offering new insights into this extremely hot state of matter

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  • HiLumi News: protecting the components of CERN’s future accelerator

    HiLumi News: protecting the components of CERN’s future accelerator

    The collimation system of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which protects the accelerator’s components, needs an upgrade to be able to handle the performance of CERN’s future accelerator

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  • CMS presents its latest search for new exotic particles

    CMS presents its latest search for new exotic particles

    This search for exotic long-lived particles looks at the possibility of “dark photon” production, which would occur when a Higgs boson decays into muons displaced in the detector

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  • LIVE: from the CERN Control Centre with the four largest LHC experiments

    LIVE: from the CERN Control Centre with the four largest LHC experiments

    Join scientists from the four largest LHC experiments and other experts, live at the CERN Control Centre on 2 November 2023, 3 p.m. CET, for a recap of the first heavy-ion run of the LHC Run 3

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  • Carbon dioxide for the environment

    Carbon dioxide for the environment

    Following the completion of a successful in-house development phase, CERN is equipping the ATLAS and CMS detectors with new carbon dioxide (CO2) cooling systems that will contribute to the transition towards green and sustainable technology in this area

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