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  • Graffiti fresco welcomes visitors to P5

    Graffiti fresco welcomes visitors to P5

    You have to be curious and creative to work for a project like CMS.

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  • LHC Collisions every 25 nanoseconds

    On Friday 7th October the LHC delivered, for the first time in the history of High Energy Physics, proton-proton collisions at the design frequency of 40 MHz, with bunches of protons colliding every 25 nanoseconds (ns), doubling the frequency achieved so far.

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  • Nobel physics prize honours accelerating Universe find

    Nobel physics prize honours accelerating Universe find

    Three researchers behind the discovery that our Universe’s expansion is accelerating have been awarded this year’s Nobel prize for physics.

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  • New CERN TV show “What’s new@CERN”

    New CERN TV show “What’s new@CERN”

    Watch the very first TV episode of “What’s new @ CERN” featuring CMS physicist Yves Sirois, John Ellis and other physicists talking about the Higgs Boson, the Standard Model, Supersymmetry and neutrinos.

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  • LHC delivers over 4 inverse femtobarns

    LHC delivers over 4 inverse femtobarns

    The LHC has now delivered over 4 inverse femtobarns (fb−1) of data in 2011, of which CMS has collected 3.7 fb−1.

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  • International Physics Masterclasses 2011

    International Physics Masterclasses 2011

    The international physics masterclasses allow high-school students to spend a day at a research institute and analyse real data from high-energy physics experiments.

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  • Technical Stop

    Next short Technical Stop will take place from Monday the 7th to Friday the 11th of November 2011

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  • Researchers’ Night in CMS & TOTEM

    Researchers’ Night in CMS & TOTEM

    On the evening of 23rd September CMS welcomed, for the second successive year, young local students to point 5 for an experience they will never forget – and this time we joined forces with TOTEM.

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  • Search for a vector-like quark with charge 2/3 in t+Z events

    Search for a vector-like quark with charge 2/3 in t+Z events

    Read the paper: EXO-11-005 In this Letter, CMS describes a search for a kind of fourth-generation T quark with charge 2/3. The search for T-antiT pairs was performed in events that had a pair of oppositely charged leptons (l+l−) as well as an additional isolated charged lepton.

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  • After Report on Speed, a Rush of Scrutiny

    Once upon a time, the only thing that traveled faster than the speed of light was gossip. Thanks to the Internet, the whole physics world was watching on Friday when Dario Autiero, of the Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon in France, in front of a palpably skeptical roomful of physicists, put a whole new…

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