In July of last year we successfully inserted the pixel detector inside CMS and successfully integrated and operated it with the rest of the CMS detector during the CRAFT run. Despite the excellent detector performance some problems arose after…

The last two weeks the Forward Pixels (FPIX) detectors were both reinstalled and successfully tested. This activity was very much interleaved with the re-alignment of the central beam pipe. Both activities took place in a fragile and confined…

Loic Quertenmont has produced a lot of very nice pictures of events in the 3.8T field. Enjoy the slideshow too...

March CERN Courier has a centre spread article on the Tracker with a cover picture.

CMS sees evidence of the Upsilon meson decaying into two tau leptons for the first time at a hadron collider Beyond our best current understanding of particle physics, encapsulated in the standard model, various theoretical models predict the…

CMS has more than 6,000 members, with institutions across 50+ countries, the CMS Collaboration is a truly global effort. This video series offers an inside look at 39 CMS laboratories worldwide. Explore the facilities where some of the detector’s…