Category: Article
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A bound on the natural width of the Higgs boson
CMS has improved the constraints on the Higgs width, a fundamental property of this unique new particle, by more than two orders of magnitude.
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Higgs – not yet flipping
PDF version “Yesterday’s sensation is today’s calibration.” – R. P. Feynman “…and tomorrow’s background.” – V. L. Telegdi
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How “green” are we? The environmental footprint of an LHC detector
At the time when the minds of a few physicists are occupied with the design of a new detector, and the first meetings take place around a coffee table with detector engineers, the subjects discussed the most are the intensity and homogeneity of the magnetic field, the hermetic nature of the calorimeters, the material budget…
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The last of the single tops
Recently the Tevatron reported the observation of the production of single top quarks in the s-channel.
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Upgrading the CMS Control Room
The CMS control room is the heart of CMS operations, located at LHC point 5 in Cessy, France.
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YB-1 wheel closed; course now set towards physics re-start
The last few months have seen several important objectives of the CMS LS1 programme completed, giving increasing confidence in the final outcome.
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A cool Tracker! Cold operation established for subdetector
The Tracker is a subdetector that is located closest to the collision point of the LHC’s particle beams inside the CMS detector.