Author: CMS Collaboration

  • Using the golden decay channel to understand the production of the Higgs boson

    Using the golden decay channel to understand the production of the Higgs boson

    Using the golden decay channel to understand the production of the Higgs boson The standard model of particle physics is currently the best way to describe interactions of fundamental particles that make up our Universe.

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  • What does the decay of a bottom quark look like?

    What does the decay of a bottom quark look like?

    What does the decay of a bottom quark look like?

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  • A shot in the dark: Can jets recoil against Dark Matter?

    A shot in the dark: Can jets recoil against Dark Matter?

    A shot in the dark: Can jets recoil against Dark Matter?

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  • Using machine learning to improve the detection of new physics in the interactions of the top quark

    Using machine learning to improve the detection of new physics in the interactions of the top quark

    Using machine learning to improve the detection of new physics in the interactions of the top quark Although our theory describing the interactions between fundamental particles is exceptionally successful, it has weaknesses.

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  • Exploring the physics processes inside the hottest matter in the universe

    Exploring the physics processes inside the hottest matter in the universe

    Quarks are elementary particles in the Standard Model and the building blocks of the protons and neutrons in atoms.

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  • Illuminating! Counting LHC collisions with CMS

    Illuminating! Counting LHC collisions with CMS

    In the LHC, groups of 100 billion protons collide 25 million times every second.

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  • New CMS Collaboration Board Chair

    New CMS Collaboration Board Chair

    The CMS Collaboration Board has elected Dr. Claudia-Elisabeth Wulz as the next CMS Collaboration Board Chair following Prof. Harrison Prosper’s mandate which ends on the 31st of August 2021. The Collaboration Board is the governing body of the experiment.

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  • Scrutinizing production and decay kinematics of the Higgs boson using its golden decay channel

    Scrutinizing production and decay kinematics of the Higgs boson using its golden decay channel

    The CMS collaboration has submitted a paper with a new, precise analysis of the data enriched in the Higgs boson decays to four leptons.

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  • Search for New Physics with one charged lepton and missing energy

    Search for New Physics with one charged lepton and missing energy

    Experimental evidence from the last half-century has established the standard model as a foundational theory of particle physics.

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  • One, two, three, W bosons bloom in the spring

    One, two, three, W bosons bloom in the spring

    The Standard Model of the fundamental particles describes the W and Z bosons as the mediator particles of the weak force, one of the four known fundamental forces responsible for the phenomenon of radioactivity and an essential ingredient to our Sun’s thermonuclear process.

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