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  • Jets at CMS and the determination of their energy scale

    Jets at CMS and the determination of their energy scale

    Jets are the experimental signatures of quarks and gluons produced in high-energy processes such as head-on proton-proton collisions.

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  • Higgs and the holy grail of physics

    Our understanding of physical reality — of everything and nothing — has changed forever.

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  • Physicists Find Elusive Particle Seen as Key to Universe

    Signaling a likely end to one of the longest, most expensive searches in the history of science, physicists said Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a key to understanding why there is diversity and life in the universe.

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  • Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC

    Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson.

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  • Observation of a New Particle with a Mass of 125 GeV

    Observation of a New Particle with a Mass of 125 GeV

    In a joint seminar today at CERN and the “ICHEP 2012” conference in Melbourne, researchers of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented their preliminary results on the search for the standard model (SM) Higgs boson in their data recorded up to June 2012.

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  • Why would I care about the Higgs boson?

    The Higgs boson is a particle associated with the electroweak-symmetry breaking mechanism that was proposed in the 1960s and is a vital component of the Standard Model of particle physics.

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  • July 4th seminar on new CMS Higgs search results

    July 4th seminar on new CMS Higgs search results

    On 4th July, at 09:00 CEST, CMS will present their latest results on the search for the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson at the LHC.

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  • Blinding and unblinding analyses

    Blinding and unblinding analyses

    CMS performs searches for new particles by looking for signals amidst a background of known physics.

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  • Communicating new CMS results for ICHEP 2012

    Communicating new CMS results for ICHEP 2012

    This page is to help CMS collaborators communicate with the media, public, students, etc. It will be updated as soon new material is available.

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  • CMS 2012 data already exceed 2011 sample

    CMS 2012 data already exceed 2011 sample

    LHC has delivered 6.65 fb−1 of collisions to CMS in 2012 so far

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