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| lucas |
Experimentalists at the Large Hadron Collider recently proved effective a simple, new method of looking for evidence of supersymmetry. The method addresses a challenge particle physicists often face in looking for new particles and processes: They…
| lucas |
At 13:25 on Sunday, 13th March, Deputy Run Coordinator, Luca Malgeri told CMS Times: “The current beam is going to be dumped soon, and the next fill is for collisions.” The LHC had its first stable beams of 2011 a little after 18:00…
| lucas |
I am very happy to announce to you all a nice coincidence of events that happened on Friday. During the last one of a long series of approval meetings on 2010 data I have received the news from the P5 crew that CMS was recording the first 2011…
| lucas | Physics
The CMS Collaboration at CERN released a paper today entitled "First Measurement of W+W− Production and Search for Higgs Boson in pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV". The paper is the first produced by CMS that includes searches for the Higgs boson at the…
| lucas | Physics
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has announced the results of the search for supersymmetry (SUSY) in events with jets and missing transverse energy. The search is based on data accumulated by the…
| lucas |
At the turn of the year, the Tracker management baton passed from GianMario Bilei (picture, at right) to Karl Aaron Gill (picture, at left), who will be the Tracker Project Manager for 2011-2012. GianMario's two-year term started on January 1st,…
| achintya | Physics
The CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has completed a search for microscopic black holes produced in high-energy proton-proton collisions. No evidence for their production was found and their production has been excluded up to a…
| lucas |
The 2010 CMS Achievement Awards were given during the opening session of the December CMS Week, on December 6, 2010. Two out of the 14 awardees are Tracker members, whom we warmly congratulate: Gordon Kaussen, for outstanding contributions to the…
| achintya | Physics
After only three weeks of heavy-ion running at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the CMS experiment is already yielding new insights into the condition of matter that existed in the very first instants of the Universe’s life, some 13.7 billion…
| achintya | Physics
The CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has recorded its first Lead-Lead collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair, marking the start of its heavy ion research programme. Physicists around the world expect a…
| achintya | Physics
Z bosons produced in collisions of heavy ions have been observed for the first time by the CMS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). CMS observed 10 events containing a distinctive candidate Z boson reconstructed from a pair of electrons…
| achintya | Physics
The CMS Collaboration at CERN released today a paper entitled "Observation of Long-Range Near-Side Angular Correlations in Proton-Proton Collisions" that details signs of a new phenomenon in proton interactions. A study of "high multiplicity"…