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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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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13 January, 2014
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13 January, 2014

CMS presents evidence for Higgs decays to fermions

The CMS collaboration have measured the decay of the Higgs boson to pairs of bottom quarks and to pairs of tau leptons

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03 December, 2013
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03 December, 2013

LHC data to be made public via open access initiative

CMS is taking its first steps in making up to half of its data accessible to the public

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15 November, 2013
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15 November, 2013

RFID chips for CERN Open Days tested at CMS

A new system for tracking visitors to CERN’s underground sites has been successfully tested by CMS and is ready for use at all targeted locations

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19 September, 2013
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19 September, 2013

Watch engineers install a muon detector on CMS

Engineers have repaired and reinstalled a part of the CMS detector crucial for identifying muons. Watch them at work

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18 September, 2013
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18 September, 2013

First CMS Fundamental Physics Scholarship announced

The annual scholarship is open to young scholars from a CMS institute or an institute with an expression of interest to join CMS

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18 September, 2013
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18 September, 2013

Strangely beautiful dimuons

A key observation at the LHC marks a major milestone in a 30-year-long journey

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10 September, 2013
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10 September, 2013

Italian Physical Society honours CERN physicists

The Italian Physical Society awarded five physicists for discoveries at the LHC

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26 July, 2013

CMS and LHCb to present rare B-sub-s particle decay

Today in Stockholm, two CERN collaborations will present measurements of one of the rarest measureable processes in physics

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19 July, 2013

Particle physics at the Montreux Jazz Festival

This week, CERN will be hosting a seminar entitled The music of physics and the physics of music at the Montreux Jazz Festival

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16 July, 2013

Particle physics at the Montreux Jazz Festival

Rock out to riffs and head-bang to the Higgs boson as CERN heads to the world-famous music festival in Switzerland

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16 July, 2013

Google Science Fair winner rocks the CMS cavern

Duelling guitars, a giant particle detector and a teenage scientist – move over, Alpenhorn, it's time to rock out at CMS

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08 July, 2013