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  • Higgs Boson

    Higgs Boson

    Introduction to the Higgs Boson and how CMS is looking for it

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  • How is CMS searching for the Higgs Boson?

    How is CMS searching for the Higgs Boson?

    The discovery of the Higgs boson, one of the main goals of the CMS experiment, proved that the Higgs field exists.

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  • Homing in on the Higgs

    Science is closing in on the most elusive thing in the Universe.

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  • CMS participates in “Expanding Your Horizons”

    CMS participates in “Expanding Your Horizons”

    On Saturday, 12th November, a group of 240 young girls aged 11-14, sporting white lab coats, took the Science building of the University of Geneva by storm.

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  • Kids learn about CERN at the “Futur en Tous Genres” day

    Kids learn about CERN at the “Futur en Tous Genres” day

    The 10- and 11-year-old children of Geneva town hall employees were allowed to skip classes on 10th November to participate in the nation-wide “Futur en Tous Genres” day and find out about different career prospects.

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  • CMS Experiment at CERN’s LHC

    CMS Experiment at CERN’s LHC

    CMS is an experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that is searching for new physics

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  • CMS Particle Detector

    CMS Particle Detector

    The CMS detector is a 5 storey-high digital camera recording hundreds of images per second of debris from LHC particle collisions

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  • 2011 proton collisions come to an end

    2011 proton collisions come to an end

    At about half-past five in the evening on Sunday, 30th October, an e-mail from Run Coordination to the CMS collaboration said: At 17:00 today the LHC dumped the last proton beams for the year to start the machine development period and to prepare for the ion running.

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  • CERN TV news #2

    CERN TV news #2

    Latest news from CERN, the LHC and Heavy Ion collisions …

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  • LHC trials proton–lead collisions

    Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are analysing the results of their first attempt at colliding protons and lead ions.

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