Tag: ICHEP 2026
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Chasing dark matter with mysterious electron pairs
The CMS experiment performs the first collider search for “inelastic dark matter” in the case where dark-matter particles travel a measurable distance before decaying into a pair of low-momentum electrons.
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When rare decays enter the precision era
One of the unique features of the weak interaction is its ability to transform one quark flavor into another.
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A needle in the pileup: CMS revives diffractive physics with tagged protons
For the first time at the LHC, W and Z bosons and TeV-scale jets are seen alongside a proton that survived the collision intact, reopening a chapter of forward physics that high pileup had closed.
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The W boson’s simplest decay into hadrons
The CMS experiment utilises proton–proton collision data collected between 2016 and 2026 to search for rare decays of the W boson into three charged hadrons.
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Four gets you more: understanding the strong force with four-way energy correlations
The strong nuclear force is the most mysterious of the four fundamental forces of nature.
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In search of unknown forces: Do W and Z boson pairs reveal new interactions?
CMS sets the world’s most stringent constraints on anomalous interactions between the bosons that carry the electroweak force.
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Lepton–lepton scattering in proton–proton collisions
The CMS experiment uses data collected between 2016 and 2026 to observe, for the first time, leptons (electrons and muons) emitted from protons scattering off one another.
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Hunting for a Hidden Side of the Higgs
A new boosted jet technique, powered by machine learning, gives CMS its most sensitive search for Higgs bosons breaking apart into never-before-seen particles.
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Two photons illuminate the path towards the Higgs boson’s hidden partner
CMS has made the first search in the two-photon and two-bottom-quark final state for a heavy particle with masses from one to four trillion electronvolts.
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Two Higgs or not two Higgs? CMS advances the search for Higgs boson pair production
CMS advances the study of Higgs boson’s self-interaction by searching for Higgs boson pairs decaying into bottom quark–antiquark and tau lepton–antilepton pairs in collisions recorded between 2022 and 2024. Is the Standard Model (SM) the ultimate theory of particle physics?