How much does the Higgs boson weigh? CMS gives its most precise answer yet
Combining measurements from two Higgs boson decay channels, the CMS experiment determines the particle’s mass to be 125.065 GeV, with an uncertainty of just 88 MeV.
Carried by the current: how charm quarks probe quark–gluon plasma
For the first time, the CMS experiment applies a technique called “event-shape engineering” to understand how charm quarks respond to the expanding geometry of the quark–gluon plasma formed in heavy-ion collisions.
The CMS Collaboration is presenting six new results at the 19th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (TOP2026), held from October 5 to 9, 2026, in the Antalya Region of Türkiye.
Chasing dark matter with mysterious electron pairs
The CMS experiment performs the first collider search for “inelastic dark matter” in the case where dark-matter particles travel a measurable distance before decaying into a pair of low-momentum electrons.
A needle in the pileup: CMS revives diffractive physics with tagged protons
For the first time at the LHC, W and Z bosons and TeV-scale jets are seen alongside a proton that survived the collision intact, reopening a chapter of forward physics that high pileup had closed.
The CMS experiment utilises proton–proton collision data collected between 2016 and 2026 to search for rare decays of the W boson into three charged hadrons.