CMS

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is designed to investigate a wide range of physics, including the search for the Higgs boson, extra dimensions, and particles that could make up dark matter. Although it has the same scientific goals as the ATLAS experiment, it uses different technical solutions and a different magnet-system design.

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Results from CERN presented at ICHEP in Spain

At ICHEP in Valencia, Spain, all four LHC experiments presented new results from the LHC’s first run. Run 2 physics holds much promise

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Experiments
07 July, 2014

CERN experiments report new Higgs boson measurements

Results reported by ATLAS and CMS discuss the decay of Higgs bosons directly to fermions, the particles that make up matter

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Accelerators
23 June, 2014

CERN celebrates its anniversary with its neighbours

For CERN, the "Fête des Voisins" (neighbours' fair) lasted the whole weekend

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At CERN
27 May, 2014

CMS inaugurates its high-tech visitor centre

The new Building SL53 on CERN’s Cessy site in France is ready to welcome visitors

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Experiments
26 May, 2014

CERN experiments present heavy-ion physics at Darmstadt

At Quark Matter 2014 this week in Germany, the ALICE, ATLAS and CMS experiments are presenting the latest results from the LHC's heavy-ion programme

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Experiments
23 May, 2014

Higgs boson machine-learning challenge

Teach the machines: CERN launches competition to develop machine-learning analysis techniques for Higgs data

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Computing
19 May, 2014
Computing
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19 May, 2014

CMS presents new boundary of Higgs width

At the Moriond conference CMS presented the best constraint yet of the Higgs boson “width”, a parameter that determines the particle’s lifetime

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Experiments
31 March, 2014
Experiments
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31 March, 2014

LHC and Tevatron scientists announce first joint result

Scientists working at LHC and Tevatron colliders join forces to produce more precise measurement of the mass of the top quark

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Experiments
19 March, 2014

Cool running for CMS tracker

CMS experiment tracker subdetector passed recent master cold tests, showing it is ready for higher-intensity running

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Experiments
19 March, 2014
Experiments
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19 March, 2014

Students visit the heart of the CMS detector

A record-breaking seven schools and more than 500 students took part in a mass virtual visit to the CMS detector today

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Experiments
12 February, 2014
Experiments
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12 February, 2014

Physics on the front line

A former CMS physicist turned British Army officer is putting college science syllabuses under the microscope in Kabul, Afghanistan

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Experiments
22 January, 2014
Experiments
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22 January, 2014

Former CMS deputy takes reins of experiment

Tiziano Camporesi became head of the CMS experiment this month as UC Santa Barbara physicist Joe Incandela’s term came to a close

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Experiments
13 January, 2014
Experiments
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13 January, 2014