Category: Article
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Playing with Protons: two years and counting
New paper charts the progress of CMS-led education initiative to empower primary school teachers towards modern physics, scientific discovery and innovation A new, open access paper, published inPhysics Education, presents the development, implementation and evaluation of an innovative training course that started at CERN in 2016 under the name ‘Playing with Protons’ with the aim…
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An Incredible Summer at CERN
This summer, I had the extraordinary opportunity of being a CERN Summer Student.
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Open Data: pushing back the frontiers together
As well as making data from particle physics research public, the CMS experiment has developed additional tools in github to be used in schools It’s exciting to use actual coding with real data from scientific experiments.
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The 2018 heavy-ion collision run has started
We are nearing the end of the year and LHC started colliding another species of particles than protons: the nuclei of heavy atoms.
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Technology used for 3D colour X-ray helps to monitor radiation at CMS
When the Large Hadron Collider is in operation, the cavern containing the CMS detector is an extremely inhospitable place, due to the high-energy radiation produced by the collisions.
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New CMS management begins mandate (2018-2020)
On 1 September 2018, a new spokesperson and two deputies took over at the helm of the CMS experiment for a period of two years.
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Bringing CMS to Lithuania, Hungary, Mexico, Italy and Portugal
There is no doubt that on the last Friday night of September many researchers are not only awake but also very busy explaining what they do to the public – it’s European Researchers Night.