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  • Double the Higgs, double the mystery! The hunt for a new, heavy particle decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons

    Double the Higgs, double the mystery! The hunt for a new, heavy particle decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons

    CMS scientists are on the hunt for a new, heavy particle that decays into a pair of Higgs bosons.

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  • CMS Ph.D. Thesis Award Winners 2024

    CMS Ph.D. Thesis Award Winners 2024

    It’s with great pride that the CMS Collaboration announces the winners of the 2024 CMS PhD Thesis Award.

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  • How CMS records all 40 million events per second

    How CMS records all 40 million events per second

    The CMS experiment is utilising a novel technique called L1 Scouting, which allows it to record data from all collisions, without any selection, but in a reduced format.

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  • Collective motion in tiny systems: oxygen and neon collisions as a window into nuclear structure

    Collective motion in tiny systems: oxygen and neon collisions as a window into nuclear structure

    CMS observes collective motion of particles in light-ion collisions, providing robust evidence of how initial nuclear geometry maps to final-state flow.

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  • LHC’s first oxygen-oxygen and neon-neon collisions – CMS spots an interesting pattern

    LHC’s first oxygen-oxygen and neon-neon collisions – CMS spots an interesting pattern

    The CMS experiment has analyzed the first-ever neon-neon collisions, looking for signs of quark-gluon plasma.

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  • LHC’s first oxygen collisions – CMS spots signs of small-scale quark-gluon plasma

    LHC’s first oxygen collisions – CMS spots signs of small-scale quark-gluon plasma

    CMS scientists study the first-ever oxygen-oxygen collisions at the LHC, and observe signs of quarks and gluons losing energy when they travel through quark-gluon plasma – a state that existed just after the Big Bang.

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  • CMS at the Initial Stages 2025 conference

    CMS at the Initial Stages 2025 conference

    At the Initial Stages conference, CMS announces first brand new results based on the recent oxygen-oxygen and neon-neon collision data.

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  • Build a CMS detector at home!

    Build a CMS detector at home!

    Build your own CMS detector at home!

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  • When light turns into weak heavy bosons

    When light turns into weak heavy bosons

    Turning the LHC into a photon collider, the CMS experiment observes for the first time how two photons fuse and convert into two W bosons.

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  • Hunting exotic Higgs bosons decaying to lightweight scalar particles

    Hunting exotic Higgs bosons decaying to lightweight scalar particles

    In a first search of its kind at the LHC, the CMS experiment looks for light beyond-the-standard-model particles with a mass in the GeV range that decay into charged hadrons and muons.

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