Author: CMS Collaboration
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CMS prepares for Pixel and HCAL upgrades
After three years of very successful operation that led to the discovery of a new boson in 2012, the LHC is scheduled for a series of upgrades that will enhance the experimental potential to study the nature of the new particle, and to extend the searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model.
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Precision measurements using top quarks at CMS
Amongst all known elementary particles, the top quark is peculiar: weighing as much as a Tungsten atom, it completes the so-called 3rd generation of quarks and is the only quark whose properties can be directly measured.
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CMS Control Room: a perfect venue for Friday nights!
Part of the CMS collaboration’s commitment to the ongoing experiments at the LHC is to participate in the detector shifts which occur 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Unexplained long-range correlations observed in pPb collisions
CMS has published its first paper on proton-lead (pPb) collisions, describing the observation of a phenomenon that was previously seen first in nucleus-nucleus collisions but also detected by CMS in proton-proton (pp) collisions.
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Hunt for the platypus particle
All of the atoms in our bodies are made of electrons, protons and neutrons, and the protons and neutrons can be further broken down into quarks.
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ZOOOM: CMS visualised in 3D
Visitors to P5 now have a series of seven posters of beautiful 3D drawings of the CMS detector to look at before they go underground to the CMS cavern.
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An inspiring summer: from the diary of a CERN intern
By Siddharth Sehgal For two weeks this summer, as an intern at CERN, I had a wonderful exposure to the exciting and challenging world of particle physics under the supervision of Archana Sharma, a senior particle physicist at CERN.
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Asymmetric collisions: smashing protons into lead nuclei
Our best understanding of the early Universe tells us that a dense medium, known as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), existed in the first microseconds after the big bang.
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Former CMS Spokesperson receives Italian knighthood
Guido Tonelli, CMS Spokesperson 2010–2011, was made ‘Commendatore’ of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republlic (Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana) by Giorgio Napolitano, the President of the Italian Republic, for contributions to the discovery of a new, Higgs-like particle at the LHC.