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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ATLAS and CMS celebrate their 25th anniversaries

On 1 October 1992, the newly formed ATLAS and CMS collaborations both submitted letters of intent for the construction of their detectors

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Experiments
02 October, 2017
Experiments
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02 October, 2017

LHC rocks the seesaw model

CMS experiment delves into the mystery of neutrino masses

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Accelerators
26 September, 2017
Accelerators
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26 September, 2017

Detectors: unique superconducting magnets

The third article in our series on superconductors takes us to the heart of the detectors and their extraordinary and powerful magnets

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Experiments
20 September, 2017
Experiments
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20 September, 2017

Where were you? Your Higgs stories revealed

On the 5th anniversary of the Higgs discovery announcement, we asked you where you were when you heard this result

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Experiments
04 July, 2017
Experiments
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04 July, 2017

Happy 5th anniversary, Higgs boson!

Five years ago, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations announced the discovery of the Higgs boson

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Experiments
04 July, 2017
Experiments
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04 July, 2017

Kick-off for the 2017 LHC physics season

Data-taking has started again at the LHC: the experiments are continuing their exploration of physics at the unprecedented energy of 13 TeV.

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Physics
23 May, 2017

LHC: preparations for a new season of physics

Adjustments to the thousands of pieces of equipment making up the LHC are ongoing before data taking can start for 2017

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Accelerators
15 May, 2017

A wealth of precise new results at Moriond

At the 52nd Rencontres de Moriond conference CERN collaborations presented many new results, including their first ones with the full 13 TeV dataset

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Experiments
30 March, 2017
Experiments
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30 March, 2017

Silicon sandwiches feed LHC’s upgraded collision appetite

CMS high-luminosity LHC upgrade requires new silicon sensors, to better distinguish between particles from multiple collisions

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Experiments
29 March, 2017

Here’s what open-heart surgery at the LHC looks like

See in images how the “heart” of the CMS detector, its Pixel Tracker, was replaced

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Experiments
14 March, 2017

CMS pixel tracker transplant: everything went well so far

At the beginning of March, the CMS collaboration installed an important part of its detector: its second-generation Pixel Tracker

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Experiments
13 March, 2017

Open-heart surgery for CMS

This week the CMS collaboration is replacing the heart of its detector: its tracking system

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Experiments
03 March, 2017
Experiments
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03 March, 2017