This year marked the ninth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson; the Standard Model particle linked to the mystery of creating the mass of all the other fundamental particles through the so-called Higgs mechanism.
The interaction of the Higgs boson with its own field leads to its mass generation.
High-energy particle accelerators are unique tools to study the structure of matter at the shortest distances. The most powerful accelerator today is the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that has so far collided beams of protons up to center-of-mass energies of 13 TeV.
For the first time, CMS physicists extract the fundamental parameters of QCD together with constraints on the New Physics.
The most powerful particle collider in the world, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), was built in the 27 km tunnel originally excavated for the highest energy electron-positron collider ever built, LEP.
The awardees of the 2020 CMS Thesis Award are Matteo Defranchis,
