CMS has developed a new method to measure the properties of the top quark with high precision. It relies on an innovative way to cluster particles into jets.
The top quark is the most massive elementary particle we have discovered so far. Due…
The processes that are mostly studied at the LHC are caused by energetic collisions where the protons break up into their constituents, the quarks and gluons, which recombine to form composite hadrons. However, many proton-proton interactions result…
Exactly ten years ago, on the 4th of July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments announced the discovery of a new particle compatible with the long-sought Higgs boson.
This discovery takes us back to the events occurring in our early…
The CMS detector, illustrated in Fig. 1, is centred around the largest and highest granularity silicon tracker ever built, including around twenty thousand detector units structured in thin cylindrical layers that extend over nearly 6 metres along…
“The important thing”, says Einstein, “is not to stop questioning”, and we, as humans, never have. What is it all made up of? How does it fit together? We’ve been yearning to answer these questions for aeons, with our collective efforts…
For the first time, the CMS experiment probes quantum entanglement in Higgs boson decays to a pair of Z bosons. The result is the most general analysis of kinematic distributions in the four-lepton final state, measuring spin correlations and…
The CMS experiment has performed a new search for Charge-Parity violation in Higgs boson decays to tau leptons, shedding light on the origin of matter.
Since its discovery in 2012, the Higgs boson has helped scientists explore some of the Universe’…
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…