After the LHC was shut down at the end of 2018, one might think that physicists working in the large experiments can sit back and relax. On the contrary, CMS will undergo an intensive upgrade and maintenance program during the two-year long…
News
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Collaboration
The EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics 2018 has been attributed to a CMS member, Dr. Chiara Mariotti "for her outstanding contributions to the discovery and characterisation of the Higgs boson, for her leading role as founder and…
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Detector
A successful four years of CMS detector operation came to an end last week and now we are beginning a new chapter. The next two-years of Long Shutdown (LS2) will mark an important transition for CMS.
Against a background of the intensive 5-…
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Physics
The top quark is the heaviest particle in the standard model, and since its discovery in 1995 at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab, its study has become prominent in furthering our understanding of fundamental physics. At the Large Hadron Collider,…
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Collaboration
On Sunday 2nd December CMS recorded the last collisions to bring to a close a very successful LHC second running period (Run 2) that began in 2015. LHC has delivered to CMS 68 fb -1 of proton-proton collisions and almost 1.8 nb-1 of Pb-Pb collisions…
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Collaboration
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and publisher of the journal Science, has elected two CMS Collaborators, Joel Butler and Scott Thomas, as 2018 AAAS fellows. This lifetime honor comes with an expectation that…
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Engage with CMS
New paper charts the progress of CMS-led education initiative to empower primary school teachers towards modern physics, scientific discovery and innovation
A new, open access paper, published inPhysics Education, presents the development,…
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Engage with CMS
As well as making data from particle physics research public, the CMS experiment has developed additional tools in github to be used in schools
It's exciting to use actual coding with real data from scientific experiments. I wish there was more of…
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Detector
We are nearing the end of the year and LHC started colliding another species of particles than protons: the nuclei of heavy atoms. These so-called “heavy-ion” collisions are used to study the properties of a particle soup known as the “quark-gluon…
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Detector
When the Large Hadron Collider is in operation, the cavern containing the CMS detector is an extremely inhospitable place, due to the high-energy radiation produced by the collisions. Even after a LHC fill finishes, some residual radioactivity can…
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Collaboration
On 1 September 2018, a new spokesperson and two deputies took over at the helm of the CMS experiment for a period of two years. The new team will lead the CMS Experiment through an important period that will include analysis of the CMS 2018 data and…
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Engage with CMS
There is no doubt that on the last Friday night of September many researchers are not only awake but also very busy explaining what they do to the public – it’s European Researchers Night.
This year, it was for the fourth consecutive year that CMS…