Category: Article
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Waking up the CMS detector – Part 2
In this short series, we look at the different types of tests and steps needed for CMS to run at the precision the experiment requires.
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Waking up the CMS detector – Part 1
It is compelling to picture large physics labs with lots of sparks and heavy levers that wake up big, important experiments with sparks and loud bangs.
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A dark world ruled by a strong force
Above: Event display for a potential SUEP event, recorded at CMS in 2018, showing the characteristically high multiplicity of soft tracks in yellow.
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Hearing the sound of quark-gluon plasma
Neutron stars, ultra-cold atomic gases, and the quark-gluon plasma… You may find them totally unrelated but, surprisingly enough, they share a common feature: a fluid-like state of matter containing strongly interacting particles!
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Illuminating the Subatomic Shadows: Unravelling the rarest signatures of the Higgs boson
A proton-proton collision at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, recorded by CMS, compatible with the production of a Higgs boson decaying to a J/ψ meson, which decays to two muons (red lines), and a high-energy photon (green box, top).
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A Big Bang from a Quantum Quark?
The universe is governed by four known fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force.
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Using computer vision techniques to search for new particles as collimated bursts of light
The main goal of the LHC physics programme is to deeply understand the fundamental principles of particles and their interactions.
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Scouting for superpartner particles
Imagine diving into the very core of the universe, where the tiniest pieces that make up everything hold the answers to big cosmic questions.
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Journeys in the Dark Sectors, via science and fiction
One day in summer 2021, all people with a CERN e-mail address received an unusual e-mail. Most of the recipients have no recollection anymore of it; we all receive so many e-mails, and this was not specifically targeted to anyone (just to “the CERN community”).
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CMS Wrapped – 2023
The time has come to wrap up the year!