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  • LHC collides protons at 13 TeV to tune accelerator

    LHC collides protons at 13 TeV to tune accelerator

    Record-breaking collisions seen by CMS

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  • A very rare decay has been seen by CMS

    A very rare decay has been seen by CMS

    CMS Experiment, CERN 13 May 2015 UPDATE 2: The CMS data used in the result below have been analysed together with LHCb’s data to obtain a combined result that is now published in Nature.

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  • LHC delivers low-energy collisions to CMS and other experiments

    LHC delivers low-energy collisions to CMS and other experiments

    First proton-proton collisions after LS1

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  • What would the Higgs discovery sound like as a heavy-metal song?

    What would the Higgs discovery sound like as a heavy-metal song?

    Last year I was part of the team that made a video for CERN’s 60th anniversary called “LHChamber music”.

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  • Night-shift live stream: #RestartLHC splash events

    Night-shift live stream: #RestartLHC splash events

    Yesterday, the LHC circulated the first beams in the accelerator after Long Shutdown 1 and CMS recorded some splash events.

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  • CMS sees first beams of LHC Run 2

    CMS sees first beams of LHC Run 2

    Yesterday was an exciting day!

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  • Preparing for the first beam “splashes”

    Preparing for the first beam “splashes”

    After a two-year hiatus, proton beams will soon start to circulate in the LHC and, in a couple of months from now, we will have the first collisions at 13 TeV, nearly twice as much as in the first run of the LHC back in 2010-2012.

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  • CMS is never idle

    CMS is never idle

    CMS is eager to see the first collisions of the LHC Run2. The recent news that the LHC restart may be delayed because of a hardware issue gives us extra time to prepare for those collisions.

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  • CMS inspires award-winning poetry

    CMS inspires award-winning poetry

    Every year on the last Friday of September, hundreds of cities around Europe celebrate the beauty and wonder of science as part of the European Researchers’ Night.

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  • How massive?

    How massive?

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