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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LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have joined forces to establish the first evidence of the rare decay of the Higgs boson into a Z boson and a photon

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Physics
26 May, 2023

ATLAS and CMS observe simultaneous production of four top quarks

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have both observed the simultaneous production of four top quarks, a rare phenomenon that could hold the key to physics beyond the Standard Model

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Physics
24 March, 2023

CMS completes the release of its entire Run 1 proton-proton data

CMS has now released the complete set of proton-proton data taken from LHC Run 1, including the original findings used in the Higgs boson discovery

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Knowledge sharing
14 December, 2022
Knowledge sharing
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14 December, 2022

First lead-ion collisions in the LHC at record energy

On Friday, 18 November, a test using collisions of lead ions was carried out in the LHC and provided an opportunity for the experiments to validate the new detectors and new data-processing systems ahead of next year’s lead-lead physics run.

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Experiments
23 November, 2022
Experiments
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23 November, 2022

First Run 3 physics result by CMS

CMS measured the top-quark pair production cross section

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Physics
04 November, 2022
Physics
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04 November, 2022

Change at the helm of the CMS collaboration

The new spokesperson, Patricia McBride, and two deputies, Wolfgang Adam and Lucia Silvestris, will represent the Collaboration for the next two years.

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Experiments
30 August, 2022
Experiments
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30 August, 2022

CMS measures rare particle decay with high precision

Using LHC Run 2 data, CMS has precisely measured the rare decay of strange B-mesons to muon-antimuon pairs. While its properties agree with Standard Model predictions, it may provide clues to new discoveries in Run 3

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Physics
11 July, 2022

CMS 2021 Award and Thesis Award winners and 2022 Young Researchers Prize

The CMS collaboration is proud to have been successfully advancing knowledge, scientific research and technology for years, and all this would certainly not have been possible without the contribution of each of its members

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Experiments
19 July, 2022

Searching for matter–antimatter asymmetry with the Higgs boson

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have searched for matter–antimatter asymmetry in the interaction between the Higgs boson and the tau lepton

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Physics
23 June, 2022

Higgs10: When spring 2012 turned to summer

It was just a few short weeks in mid-2012, but they were so intense that it felt like years. As 4 July drew near, the ATLAS and CMS experiments could sense that they were homing in on something big.

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Physics
04 July, 2022
Physics
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04 July, 2022

ATLAS and CMS release results of most comprehensive studies yet of Higgs boson’s properties

The collaborations have used the largest samples of proton–proton collision data recorded so far by the experiments to study the unique particle in unprecedented detail

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Physics
04 July, 2022

LHC Run 3: physics at record energy starts tomorrow

The Large Hadron Collider is ready to once again start delivering proton collisions to experiments, this time at an unprecedented energy of 13.6 TeV, marking the start of the accelerator’s third run of data taking for physics

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Physics
04 July, 2022