Author: CMS Collaboration
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Why is CMS so big?
It may seem strange that to record the Universe’s tiniest constituents we need the world’s most powerful machines and detectors.
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How CMS detects particles
Each particle that emerges from an LHC collision is like a piece of a puzzle, with some of these pieces breaking up further as they travel away from the collision.
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Higgs Boson
Introduction to the Higgs Boson and how CMS is looking for it
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How is CMS searching for the Higgs Boson?
The discovery of the Higgs boson, one of the main goals of the CMS experiment, proved that the Higgs field exists.
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CMS participates in “Expanding Your Horizons”
On Saturday, 12th November, a group of 240 young girls aged 11-14, sporting white lab coats, took the Science building of the University of Geneva by storm.
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Kids learn about CERN at the “Futur en Tous Genres” day
The 10- and 11-year-old children of Geneva town hall employees were allowed to skip classes on 10th November to participate in the nation-wide “Futur en Tous Genres” day and find out about different career prospects.
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CMS Experiment at CERN’s LHC
CMS is an experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that is searching for new physics