Author: CMS Collaboration

  • New milestone – 10/fb recorded by CMS in 2012

    New milestone – 10/fb recorded by CMS in 2012

    CMS has just passed another major milestone, recording more than 10 inverse femtobarns of data at 8 TeV.

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  • Paper submitted: Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV

    Paper submitted: Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV

    31 July 2012, CERN Today CMS submitted for publication, in the Physics Letters B journal, a paper entitled “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC”.

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  • Visit of the French Prime Minister Mr. Jean-Marc Ayrault

    Visit of the French Prime Minister Mr. Jean-Marc Ayrault

    Version française ci-dessous / French version below The Prime Minister of France Jean-Marc Ayrault visited CERN on the 30th of July, accompanied by the Minister of Higher Education and Research Mme Geneviève Fioraso.

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  • Jets at CMS and the determination of their energy scale

    Jets at CMS and the determination of their energy scale

    Jets are the experimental signatures of quarks and gluons produced in high-energy processes such as head-on proton-proton collisions.

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  • Higgs and the holy grail of physics

    Our understanding of physical reality — of everything and nothing — has changed forever.

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  • Physicists Find Elusive Particle Seen as Key to Universe

    Signaling a likely end to one of the longest, most expensive searches in the history of science, physicists said Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a key to understanding why there is diversity and life in the universe.

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  • Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC

    Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson.

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  • Observation of a New Particle with a Mass of 125 GeV

    Observation of a New Particle with a Mass of 125 GeV

    In a joint seminar today at CERN and the “ICHEP 2012” conference in Melbourne, researchers of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented their preliminary results on the search for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson in their data recorded up to June 2012.

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  • Why would I care about the Higgs boson?

    The Higgs boson is a particle associated with the electroweak-symmetry breaking mechanism that was proposed in the 1960s and is a vital component of the Standard Model of particle physics.

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  • July 4th seminar on new CMS Higgs search results

    July 4th seminar on new CMS Higgs search results

    On 4th July, at 09:00 CEST, CMS will present their latest results on the search for the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson at the LHC.

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