Author: CMS Collaboration

  • CMS Particle Detector

    CMS Particle Detector

    The CMS detector is a 5 storey-high digital camera recording hundreds of images per second of debris from LHC particle collisions

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  • 2011 proton collisions come to an end

    2011 proton collisions come to an end

    At about half-past five in the evening on Sunday, 30th October, an e-mail from Run Coordination to the CMS collaboration said: At 17:00 today the LHC dumped the last proton beams for the year to start the machine development period and to prepare for the ion running.

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  • CERN TV news #2

    CERN TV news #2

    Latest news from CERN, the LHC and Heavy Ion collisions …

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  • LHC trials proton–lead collisions

    Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are analysing the results of their first attempt at colliding protons and lead ions.

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  • LHC trials proton–lead collisions

    Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are analysing the results of their first attempt at colliding protons and lead ions.

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  • LHC trials proton–lead collisions

    Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are analysing the results of their first attempt at colliding protons and lead ions.

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  • The Weak Mixing of Light and Heavy

    The Weak Mixing of Light and Heavy

    The source of energy for most of the life on our planet originates from proton-proton collisions at the core of the Sun, which occur at an energy (or temperature) about a billion times less than the collision energy of the LHC.

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  • LHC to probe early universe in best detail yet

    The Large Hadron Collider will spend four weeks probing the conditions of the early universe in better detail than ever before, as it takes a break from the hunt for the Higgs boson…

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  • ATLAS and CMS combine summer ’11 search limits on the Standard Model Higgs

    ATLAS and CMS combine summer ’11 search limits on the Standard Model Higgs

    By combining their data ATLAS and CMS increase their sensitivity in the Higgs boson search

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  • Summary of 2011 p-p running

    Summary of 2011 p-p running

    At 17:00 on Sunday 30th October the LHC dumped the last proton beams for the year to start the machine development period and to prepare for heavy ion running.

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