Author: CMS Collaboration
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CMS Higgs boson search results from 2010-2011 data samples
This week the CMS collaboration will publish the results of its search for the Higgs boson that were presented at CERN in December 2011 [1].
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What is the Universe really made of?
Dark secrets of the Universe It’s perhaps natural that we don’t know much about how the Universe was created – after all, we were never there ourselves.
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What do we already know?
The standard package The theories and discoveries of thousands of physicists over the past century have resulted in a remarkable insight into the fundamental structure of matter: everything that has been directly observed in the Universe until now has been found to be made from twelve basic building blocks called fundamental particles, governed by four…
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The Big Questions
Accelerators and detectors The particles that make up forces and matter are so small that if the nucleus of an atom were enlarged to the size of a tennis ball, a full stop (“.”)