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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What’s in store for the CMS detector over the next two years?

With the LHC switched off for a two-year technical stop, CMS is undergoing significant maintenance and upgrades

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Experiments
26 February, 2019
Experiments
News
26 February, 2019

CMS gets first result using largest yet LHC sample

The CMS collaboration at CERN has submitted its first paper based on the full LHC dataset collected in 2018 and data collected in 2016 and 2017

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Physics
15 February, 2019

A new management for CMS in 2018

On 1 September 2018, a new spokesperson and two deputies took over at the helm of the CMS experiment

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At CERN
15 October, 2018
At CERN
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15 October, 2018

Open Data: pushing back the frontiers together

As well as making data from particle physics research public, the CMS experiment has developed additional tools in github to be used in schools

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Knowledge sharing
22 October, 2018
Knowledge sharing
News
22 October, 2018

A bumper crop of LHC results at Quark Matter 2018

The main LHC collaborations present a wealth of new results at this year’s Quark Matter conference

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Physics
18 May, 2018

The hunt for leptoquarks is on

Recent results from CMS explore third-generation leptoquarks: hypothetical particles that combine the properties of leptons and quarks

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Physics
19 September, 2018
Physics
News
19 September, 2018

Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed

Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks.

Press release
Physics
28 August, 2018
Physics
Press release
28 August, 2018