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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Bringing CMS to South Korea

Virtual visits give CMS collaborators in Seoul chance to introduce students to particle physics

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Experiments
21 June, 2016
Experiments
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21 June, 2016

CMS publishes 700th research paper

A look back at the milestone papers CMS has published since its beginning

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Experiments
07 May, 2018
Experiments
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07 May, 2018

Where were you? Your Higgs stories revealed

On the 5th anniversary of the Higgs discovery announcement, we asked you where you were when you heard this result

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At CERN
07 May, 2018

Silicon sandwiches feed LHC’s upgraded collision appetite

CMS high-luminosity LHC upgrade requires new silicon sensors, to better distinguish between particles from multiple collisions

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Experiments
07 May, 2018

Long-lived physics

The CMS collaboration closes in on exotic long-lived particles that could get trapped in its detector layers

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Experiments
18 January, 2018
Experiments
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18 January, 2018

CMS releases more than one petabyte of open data

This release includes datasets that were used to discover the Higgs boson

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Experiments
20 December, 2017
Experiments
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20 December, 2017

LHC experiments highlight 2017 results

On 15 December, the LHC experiments ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb reviewed their recent experimental results

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Experiments
19 December, 2017
Experiments
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19 December, 2017

CMS publishes 700th research paper

A look back at the milestone papers CMS has published since its beginning

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At CERN
24 November, 2017
At CERN
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24 November, 2017

ATLAS and CMS join forces to tackle top-quark asymmetry

Top marks for the Standard Model as LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS study the subtle behaviour of the heaviest particle

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Experiments
20 October, 2017
Experiments
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20 October, 2017

ATLAS and CMS celebrate their 25th anniversaries

On 1 October 1992, the newly formed ATLAS and CMS collaborations both submitted letters of intent for the construction of their detectors

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Experiments
02 October, 2017
Experiments
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02 October, 2017

LHC rocks the seesaw model

CMS experiment delves into the mystery of neutrino masses

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Accelerators
26 September, 2017
Accelerators
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26 September, 2017

Detectors: unique superconducting magnets

The third article in our series on superconductors takes us to the heart of the detectors and their extraordinary and powerful magnets

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Experiments
20 September, 2017
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20 September, 2017