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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Open-heart surgery for CMS

The CMS detector’s tracking system, which determines the trajectories of charged particles, is being replaced this week at Point 5

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Experiments
28 February, 2017
Experiments
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28 February, 2017

Quark Matter 2017: understanding the early universe

The LHC experiment collaborations presented their latest results at the Quark Matter conference on how matter behaved in the universe's first moments

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Experiments
10 February, 2017
Experiments
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10 February, 2017

How can high energy physics help the water shortage?

CERN is now part of a research project to develop a system for optimised irrigation, based on technologies developed for high energy physics

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Knowledge sharing
20 January, 2017
Knowledge sharing
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20 January, 2017

The 4th ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb Career Networking Event

The “ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb Career Networking Event” provided early career researchers with an insight into career opportunities outside academia

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Experiments
09 December, 2016
Experiments
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09 December, 2016

CMS Create #2: Big ideas to boost CMS exhibition

After a gruelling two-day workshop, the winning prototype from the CMS Create #2 competition has been chosen

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Experiments
08 December, 2016
Experiments
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08 December, 2016

ATLAS and CMS physicists awarded 2017 Panofsky Prize

Michel Della Negra, Peter Jenni and Tejinder Virdee, former spokespersons of ATLAS and CMS, will be presented with the 2017 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize

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Experiments
27 October, 2016
Experiments
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27 October, 2016

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

CERN hosts live reddit Q&A on CMS open data

CERN conducted its fourth reddit AMA to discuss the recent release of 300 terabytes of data from the CMS collaboration

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Computing
01 June, 2016

Return of the LHC – season 2 continues

The LHC has introduced beam for the first time since the year-end technical stop began in December 2015

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Accelerators
29 March, 2016
Accelerators
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29 March, 2016

New CMS spokesperson

Fermilab’s Joel Butler will take the reins of the CMS collaboration in September

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Experiments
12 March, 2016
Experiments
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12 March, 2016

LHC collides ions at new record energy

The accelerator is colliding leads ions at an energy about twice as high as that of any previous collider experiment

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Accelerators
25 November, 2015
Accelerators
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25 November, 2015

ATLAS and CMS experiments shed light on Higgs properties

At the 2015 LHCP conference the collaborations presented for the first time combined measurements of many properties of the Higgs boson

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Accelerators
01 September, 2015
Accelerators
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01 September, 2015