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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A new team at the helm of CMS

Luca Malgeri and his deputies, Gautier Hamel de Monchenault and Jim Olsen, form the collaboration’s new leadership team

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At CERN
15 September, 2020
At CERN
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15 September, 2020

CMS experiment at CERN releases fifth batch of open data

All research-quality data from proton–proton collisions recorded by CMS during the first two years of LHC operation are now publicly available

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Knowledge sharing
27 August, 2020
Knowledge sharing
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27 August, 2020

CERN experiments announce first indications of a rare Higgs boson process

The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN have announced new results which show that the Higgs boson decays into two muons

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Physics
03 August, 2020
Physics
Press release
03 August, 2020

CMS celebrates its 2019 Thesis Award winner

Marcel Rieger, from RWTH Aachen University, stood out among the 25 nominees

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Experiments
08 July, 2020
Experiments
News
08 July, 2020

The Higgs boson: Revealing nature’s secrets

Our third story in the LHC Physics at Ten series takes us on a deeper dive into the Higgs boson

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Physics
04 July, 2020

Exploring new ways to see the Higgs boson

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations presented their latest results on new signatures for detecting the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

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Physics
04 June, 2020

The Higgs boson: What makes it special?

Our second story in the LHC Physics at Ten series visits the LHC’s most important discovery so far

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Physics
04 May, 2020
Physics
Feature
04 May, 2020

Searching for matter–antimatter asymmetry in the Higgs boson–top quark interaction

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations used the full LHC Run 2 dataset to obtain new insights into the interaction

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Physics
29 April, 2020

Entering Uncharted Waters

The Large Hadron Collider began its physics programme on this day a decade ago

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Accelerators
30 March, 2020
Accelerators
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30 March, 2020

CMS measures Higgs boson’s mass with unprecedented precision

The CMS collaboration reported the Higgs boson’s mass with a precision of about 0.1%

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Physics
25 October, 2019

Run top quark run

The CMS collaboration has measured for the first time the variation, or “running”, of the top-quark mass

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Physics
07 October, 2019
Physics
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07 October, 2019

LS2 Report: CMS set to glitter with installation of new GEMs

The CMS muon system is being upgraded to help track muons with ever-higher precision

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Experiments
17 September, 2019
Experiments
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17 September, 2019