Category: Article
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Two weeks at CERN – an unsaid dream of High-school students
I heard about CERN in my 6th grade, when I first learned about antimatter and where it is produced. It was one of the earliest signs of my growing passion for physics.
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Goodbye 2021, Welcome 2022!
Before saying goodbye to 2021, we’re proud to look back at major milestones reached by CMS collaboration both on physics results and detector upgrades along the year.
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Hunting for anomalous interactions between the Higgs bosons and the top quarks
Since the Higgs boson discovery in 2012 by the CMS and the ATLAS collaborations, the interaction of the Higgs boson with other fundamental particles as well as with itself are studied with ever-increasing precision to pin down the nature of this new particle.
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The Z and the b
The collision of high-energy protons at the LHC breaks them apart and allows us to look at its constituents.
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First CMS open data from LHC Run 2 released
As the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) brace for the start of Run 3 of the accelerator’s programme in 2022, the CMS collaboration has released a new batch of research-quality open data recorded by the CMS detector in 2015, the first year of Run 2. The new datasets are now available on the…
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High-school students “connect Quarks with the Cosmos” using CMS heavy ion open data
Last December, for the first time, over 200 terabytes of CMS data recorded in 2010 and 2011 from lead-lead collisions were released into the public domain. When physicists collide high-energy heavy nuclei, for example, lead-lead collisions at the LHC, they study the transition from ordinary matter to the so-called quark-gluon plasma (QGP).
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First collisions reconstructed with GPUs at CMS
During the CERN pilot beams at the end of October, for the first time CMS has reconstructed online the LHC collision data with Graphic Processing Units (GPUs).
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Life of the Higgs boson
The Higgs boson is peculiar in many respects.
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Cosmic Rays, splashes and test collisions: CMS has seen them all!
As the end of Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) is getting closer, CERN along with the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is preparing to welcome the most awaited Run 3 next year.
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Adrenaline rush at LHC Point 5
CERN’s most ambitious emergency response exercise to date took place on 13 November at LHC Point 5, with the involvement of French, Swiss and CERNois safety and rescue teams It is a peaceful Saturday morning in Cessy, France.