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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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

News
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

Feature
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
Feature
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
News
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
News
17 September, 2019

LS2 Report: the complex case of vacuums in the experiments

New vacuum chambers are being developed for the ALICE and CMS experiments

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Engineering
23 July, 2019

CMS releases open data for Machine Learning

CMS has also provided open access to 100% of its research data recorded in proton–proton collisions in 2010

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Knowledge sharing
17 July, 2019
Knowledge sharing
News
17 July, 2019

New Higgs results presented at 2019 EPS-HEP conference

ATLAS and CMS have studied the Higgs boson with the largest sample of proton–proton collision data recorded so far

Press release
Physics
15 July, 2019
Physics
Press release
15 July, 2019

CMS hunts for dark photons coming from the Higgs boson

The CMS collaboration has searched for collision events in which the Higgs boson transforms into a photon and a hypothetical dark photon

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Physics
24 May, 2019