CERN Accelerating science

An application using real event data from CMS has won “Best Science” prize in a public “Science Hack Day” held in Nairobi between 13^th and 15^th April 2012.

Tejinder (Jim) Virdee, CMS co-founder and former Spokesperson (2006-2010), was today elected as Fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of the UK.

The Year-End Technical Stop or YETS, when the LHC takes its annual break, seemed like a quiet time to those outside CERN. After all, there were no collisions taking place and the CMS detector was not operating 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week.

A new year with new energy and new luminosities: 2012 holds the promise to close the question on the existence (or absence) of a Standard Model Higgs boson.

As high-energy particle physics pushes exploration at energy and luminosity frontiers, experiments are becoming increasingly complex – and this, in turn, drives the need for developments in particle detectors and their associated technologies.

The Large Hadron Collider has woken from its winter slumber with a bang.

THE world's largest particle collider notched up a new record yesterday as it escalated its quest to explore the origins of the Universe.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is operating again after its winter break.

A search is presented for a massive particle, generically referred to as a Z′, decaying into a t-tbar pair.

The production of b jets in association with a Z/γ^* boson is studied using proton-proton collisions delivered by the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and recorded by the CMS detector.