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  • Behind every sub detector, there are many student contributions. Get to know some of us!

    Behind every sub detector, there are many student contributions. Get to know some of us!

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  • The Start of the 2023 Heavy-Ion Run

    The Start of the 2023 Heavy-Ion Run

    Yesterday at 7:46 pm the first stable beams of the LHC 2023 heavy-ion run have been recorded.

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  • CMS Young Researchers Prize 2023 – The Winners

    CMS Young Researchers Prize 2023 – The Winners

    Every year, at least three young researchers within the CMS Collaboration are recognised for their exceptional efforts and achievements with the CMS Young Researcher Prize!

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  • Complete Run 1 Heavy Ion Open Data Collection

    Complete Run 1 Heavy Ion Open Data Collection

    New release of simulations, proton-lead collision data, and proton reference data The CMS experiment’s extensive collection of heavy ion data from LHC Run-1 (2010–2013) is now accessible through the CERN Open Data portal.

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  • Does CMS exist in the Disney Universe?

    Does CMS exist in the Disney Universe?

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  • The Higgs boson gets a boost

    The Higgs boson gets a boost

    A new search conducted by the CMS collaboration is exploring Higgs bosons with very high energy.

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  • Performance of jet flavour algorithms: ML to calibrate ML in data

    Performance of jet flavour algorithms: ML to calibrate ML in data

    Very quickly after quarks are produced in proton-proton collisions, they radiate gluons (the mediators of the strong force between quarks) that in turn produce more particles that radiate gluons.

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  • Hunting the Higgs boson siblings with top quarks

    Hunting the Higgs boson siblings with top quarks

    Peter Higgs and François Englert received the Nobel Prize in Physics after the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV.

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  • Detector showers wash away backgrounds of new long-lived particles

    Detector showers wash away backgrounds of new long-lived particles

    Most searches for new physics beyond the standard model (SM) focus on particles that decay almost instantly after being produced.

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  • Leptoquarks as intergenerational messengers

    Leptoquarks as intergenerational messengers

    We have this idea that we communicate best within our own generation, but is this true?

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