Author: CMS Collaboration

  • PHYSICS in the afternoon today (Oct 21)

    The machine just announced going to Proton Physics today in the afternoon since ~5pm.

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  • Lepton fizz – search for excited leptons

    Lepton fizz – search for excited leptons

    Grab a can of soda, shake it thoroughly, and open it up.

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  • LHC delivers 5 inverse femtobarns

    LHC delivers 5 inverse femtobarns

    The LHC has now delivered 5 inverse femtobarns (fb−1) of data in 2011, of which CMS has collected 4.53 fb−1.

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  • Italian Olympiad Winners visit CERN

    Italian Olympiad Winners visit CERN

    This year, for the first time, the winners of the Italian Physics, Mathematics and Informatics Olympiads received an unforgettable reward from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR): a trip to CERN.

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  • Graffiti fresco welcomes visitors to P5

    Graffiti fresco welcomes visitors to P5

    You have to be curious and creative to work for a project like CMS.

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  • LHC Collisions every 25 nanoseconds

    On Friday 7th October the LHC delivered, for the first time in the history of High Energy Physics, proton-proton collisions at the design frequency of 40 MHz, with bunches of protons colliding every 25 nanoseconds (ns), doubling the frequency achieved so far.

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  • Nobel physics prize honours accelerating Universe find

    Nobel physics prize honours accelerating Universe find

    Three researchers behind the discovery that our Universe’s expansion is accelerating have been awarded this year’s Nobel prize for physics.

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  • New CERN TV show “What’s new@CERN”

    New CERN TV show “What’s new@CERN”

    Watch the very first TV episode of “What’s new @ CERN” featuring CMS physicist Yves Sirois, John Ellis and other physicists talking about the Higgs Boson, the Standard Model, Supersymmetry and neutrinos.

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  • LHC delivers over 4 inverse femtobarns

    LHC delivers over 4 inverse femtobarns

    The LHC has now delivered over 4 inverse femtobarns (fb−1) of data in 2011, of which CMS has collected 3.7 fb−1.

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  • International Physics Masterclasses 2011

    International Physics Masterclasses 2011

    The international physics masterclasses allow high-school students to spend a day at a research institute and analyse real data from high-energy physics experiments.

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