Author: CMS Collaboration

  • Forward-looking with half a Higgs

    Forward-looking with half a Higgs

    Eight years ago in 2012, at the largest International Conference on High Energy Physics, the discovery of a new particle carefully coined as Higgs boson-like was announced by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations.

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  • Forward-looking with half a Higgs

    Forward-looking with half a Higgs

    Eight years ago in 2012, at the largest International Conference on High Energy Physics, the discovery of a new particle carefully coined as Higgs boson-like was announced by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations.

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  • Heavy metal hits the top

    Heavy metal hits the top

    A new result by the CMS collaboration accepted by the journal Physical Review Letters demonstrates for the first time that top quarks are produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions.

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  • Searching for the totally unknown

    Searching for the totally unknown

    It is the dream of all particle physicists to find a new particle or to reveal a new fundamental force.

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  • CMS sees evidence for the Higgs boson decaying into muons

    CMS sees evidence for the Higgs boson decaying into muons

    A new result released by the CMS Collaboration presents the first evidence of the Higgs boson interacting with the muon.

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  • Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most CP-even of them all?

    Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most CP-even of them all?

    In 2012 the ATLAS and CMS collaborations discovered a boson with a mass of 125 GeV, i.e. approximately 125 times the mass of the proton, in proton-proton collisions at the CERN LHC.

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  • Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most CP-even of them all?

    Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most CP-even of them all?

    In 2012 the ATLAS and CMS collaborations discovered a boson with a mass of 125 GeV, i.e. approximately 125 times the mass of the proton, in proton-proton collisions at the CERN LHC.

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  • Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most CP-even of them all?

    Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most CP-even of them all?

    In 2012 the ATLAS and CMS collaborations discovered a boson with a mass of 125 GeV, i.e. approximately 125 times the mass of the proton, in proton-proton collisions at the CERN LHC.

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  • Higgs playing with top in singles and doubles

    Higgs playing with top in singles and doubles

    Measuring the interaction between the Higgs boson and other particles is essential to understand if the particle behaves consistently with predictions.

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  • CMS searches for Higgs boson’s extremely rare decay to a Z boson and a meson

    CMS searches for Higgs boson’s extremely rare decay to a Z boson and a meson

    A question researchers at the LHC are trying to answer is whether the properties of the Higgs boson are as predicted by the standard model.

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