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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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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Experiments
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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Experiments
08 July, 2013

To learn science, add art with Science&Art@School

A new education project from the CMS collaboration combines science and the arts to inspire students about particle physics

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Experiments
03 July, 2013

Lab-made liquid may cause strange particle behaviour

A new result from the CMS collaboration takes a step toward revealing the origin of the mysterious "ridge effect"

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Accelerators
08 May, 2013

CMS prepares for the future

There will be no rest at Point 5, the site of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector, during the long shutdown of the LHC

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Experiments
23 April, 2013
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23 April, 2013

Artist turns physicists into particles at CMS

An art installation at CMS Point 5 transforms physicists into the particles they study

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Experiments
16 April, 2013
Experiments
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16 April, 2013

Recent results on Higgs studies at ATLAS and CMS

The experiments release combined spin measurements for the Higgs boson for the first time

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Experiments
15 April, 2013

Recent results on Higgs studies at ATLAS and CMS

The experiments release combined spin measurements for the Higgs boson for the first time

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Experiments
15 April, 2013

CMS open for business

Engineers and technicians have started opening the 14,000-tonne CMS detector, to let detector physicists like David Barney get to work inside

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Experiments
27 March, 2013
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27 March, 2013

Lead-proton run: CMS prepares to receive collisions

Preparations have been progressing steadily at CMS to receive collisions between protons and lead ions

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Accelerators
18 January, 2013
Accelerators
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18 January, 2013

Highlights from CERN in 2012

A Higgs-like boson, more new particles and record performance at the LHC: 2012 has been good to CERN

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Experiments
21 December, 2012
Experiments
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21 December, 2012

CMS reaches 200th paper published with LHC collision data

See the interactive plot of papers published by the CMS collaboration since January 2010

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Experiments
12 December, 2012
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12 December, 2012