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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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
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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

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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

CMS tightens its net around muons

During LS2, CMS will install 144 additional muon detector modules specially designed to detect particles produced in the very forward region

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Experiments
07 April, 2019
Experiments
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07 April, 2019

Highlights from the 2019 Moriond conference (electroweak physics)

The latest experimental data provide more stringent tests of the Standard Model and of rare phenomena of the microworld

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Physics
29 March, 2019

A “muoscope” with CMS technology

Researchers from the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider are developing a new application based on one of the experiment’s particle detectors

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Knowledge sharing
22 March, 2019
Knowledge sharing
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22 March, 2019

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
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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
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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