Author: CMS Collaboration

  • CERN – Making wishes come true

    CERN – Making wishes come true

    It is well known that CERN is an open laboratory, welcoming visitors from around the world on a daily basis.

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  • Higgs particle could be found by Christmas

    Higgs particle could be found by Christmas

    The hunt for the Higgs particle is well ahead of schedule, say researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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  • Atom-smashing hype faces reality

    Atom-smashing hype faces reality

    The latest results from the Large Hadron Collider serve as a reality check for expectations that radical scientific discoveries are just around the corner.

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  • A Higgs Setback: Did Stephen Hawking Just Win the Most Outrageous Bet in Physics History?

    A few years ago, celebrated British physicist Stephen Hawking was widely reported in the press to have placed a provocative public bet that the LHC (along with all particle accelerators that preceded it) would never find the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle” believed responsible for having imbued massive particles with their mass when the…

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  • Higgs Boson search continues as signs of God Particle fade

    Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have reported another twist in their search for the “God Particle” after signals that they hoped might lead them to the Higgs boson disappeared.

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  • Higgs signal sinks from view

    The Higgs boson, the most sought-after particle in all of physics, is proving tougher to find than physicists had hoped.

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  • New CMS Higgs Search Results for the Lepton Photon 2011 Conference

    New CMS Higgs Search Results for the Lepton Photon 2011 Conference

    The Higgs boson is the only particle predicted by the Standard Model that has not yet been seen by experiments.

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  • Higgs boson range narrows at European collider

    Higgs boson range narrows at European collider

    Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider say a signal that suggested they might have seen “hints” of the long-sought Higgs boson particle has weakened.

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  • Higgs boson signals fade at Large Hadron Collider

    Ripples of excitement swept through the physics community last month when Cern scientists reported what looked like glimpses of the long-sought Higgs boson.

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  • Should you get excited by your data? Let the Look-Elsewhere Effect decide

    Should you get excited by your data? Let the Look-Elsewhere Effect decide

    A dangerous beast is hiding in today’s searches for the rare signs of new physics — or even “old” physics, such as the Higgs boson — at the Large Hadron Collider.

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