Category: Article
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CMS and CERN inspire UK primary-school teachers to play with protons
On 21 August 2017, 10 primary science specialist teachers from the UK travelled to Geneva to participate in the 1st Playing with Protons UK CPD course at CERN.
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A summer of open data
The signs are in the air. And they couldn’t be more obvious. People wandering in tunnels, long queues in the canteen after the morning lectures, the local supermarket’s parking lot crowded with white bikes that have blue stickers on them…
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Visit CMS and the LHC with virtual reality
This month marks my tenth year based at CERN working on CMS and in that time I have seen the actual CMS detector twice: once above-ground as parts of it were being prepared to be lowered into the cavern and once underground in the cavern when it was all assembled.
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Happy 5th Higgs Anniversary! Here are some #HiggsStories from CMS
The discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations was announced five years ago, on 4 July 2012. To celebrate the fifth anniversary of this discovery, we asked CMS scientists to recall what they were doing on that day.
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ConCERNed: Using Hip-Hop to Engage New Audiences in Particle Physics
South London-based hip-hop artist, Consensus, writes an entire album about particle physics and creates opportunities for new, under-represented audiences to discover and appreciate the beauty of scientific research (Image: Etienne “TETO” Bortoluzzi, Michael Hoch, Kt Watson Photography) Since its inception in the late 1970s, hip-hop culture has had a strong impact on young people across…
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art@CMS founder Michael Hoch wins 2017 EPS HEPP outreach prize
The High Energy and Particle Physics (HEPP) Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) has announced the winners of its 2017 prizes.