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.
CMS has just recorded the first collisions with stable beams at a world-record collision energy of 8 TeV.
Results are presented from a search for heavy bottom-like quarks, produced in pairs in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV, undertaken with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The b′ quarks are assumed to decay exclusively to a top quark and a W boson (tW).