Category: Physics
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Searching for a hidden signal
The CMS Collaboration has released the results of a new analysis that looks for the subtle influence of “new physics” in the production of a W boson and photon pair.
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Jetting through a droplet of matter from the early universe
High energy heavy-ion collisions provide a unique opportunity to study one of the four forces of nature, the strong force, under extreme conditions.
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The top quarks’ energetic light
Electromagnetic interactions govern everyday life: You see an object when particles of light deposit energy on the retinas in your eyes.
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How many Higgs bosons are there?
In the Standard Model of particle physics, at least one Higgs boson is needed to explain fundamental particles’ masses.
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Under the Radar: Searching for Stealthy New Particles
The standard model of particle physics encapsulates our current knowledge of elementary particles and their interactions.
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Observation of a new excited beautiful strange baryon at the CMS experiment
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the part of the Standard Model of Particle Physics that describes the strong interaction.
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Finding electrons and photons with the CMS detector
Fundamental particles are the most basic building blocks of the universe.
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Getting excited about quarks
Physicists continue to question if the particles we know of are the most fundamental.
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How does the Higgs boson interact with itself?
Studying the production of two Higgs bosons is the most obvious way to understand the field responsible for the Higgs boson. A new result by the CMS collaboration gets closer than ever to measuring this field and its physics prediction.
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CMS: A hunter of Super-Leptons
The Standard Model of Particle Physics is the theory that physicists use to describe elementary particles’ fundamental interactions.